A Popular Treatise on the Physiology of Plants, for the use of Gardeners, or for Students of Horticulture and of Agriculture

Abstract

OF all the sections into which the teacher of botany must divide his subject, perhaps the most difficult for him to deal with is that of vegetable physiology. No adequate elementary text-book has hitherto existed in English, the classical works of Sachs and Vines being, by their very completeness, too bulky and too full of detail for the student who is beginning the study of the subject. The work of Dr. Sorauer is intended to supply this deficiency. It is written especially for those whose interest in the matter is a practical one, and it deals, consequently, mainly with those questions which are of interest to the horticulturist as bearing on the problems of cultivation. Approaching the matter, however, from this side only, the book, as a work on physiology, to a certain extent comes short of what is needed, as many important sections of the subject are left untouched.

A Popular Treatise on the Physiology of Plants, for the use of Gardeners, or for Students of Horticulture and of Agriculture.

By Dr. Paul Sorauer, Director of the Experimental Station at the Royal Pomological Institute in Proskau (Silesia). Translated by F. E. Weiss, B.Sc, F.L.S., Professor of Botany at the Owens College, Manchester. (London: Longmans, 1895.)