Practical Plant Physiology

Abstract

BOTANICAL physiology is one of the most instructive branches of science, because it provides an excellent test of a student's capabilities and is particularly suitable for inculcating the spirit of original research. Both these objects are kept in view by the author of this practical textbook, where they supply the main undercurrent flowing below the more obvious stream of information conveyed in the text. The course outlined is also thorough and complete, as the student is led sj'stematic ally by argument and experiment through the sequence of problems connected with plant nutrition. Indeed, it will be speedily ascertained by those who start the course that the experiments indicated require considerably more time than is ordinarily devoted to this branch of botany; however, in this case there is no great objection to superfluity, as it is a simple matter to leave out those experiments considered to be less important. In the circumstances the author was well advised to touch only lightly upon the sensitivity of plants, which is discussed in the las t chapter.

Practical Plant Physiology.

By Prof. F. Keeble, assisted by M. C. Rayner. Pp. xvi + 250. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1911.) Price 3s. 6d.