Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

We and the Plant People

4 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

We and the Plant People

We live and the plants live. Probably neither we nor the plants spend much time thinking about what we owe to each other.

We and the Plant People: Nitrogen

These materials are nitrogen, sulphur, and phosphorus. Nitrogen is the most important, and this the plant gets chiefly through the roots.

We and the Plant People: Just

When the protoplasm of certain cells wants to build hard, tough walls, it uses potash and soda or even silica, which you know glass is made…

We and the Plant People: Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Jack-in-the-Pulpit jumps up quite early in the summer, and then we cannot find him, only in the late summer we sometimes come across little…

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