{"product_id":"roots-to-seeds-by-stephen-a-harris-9781851245611","title":"Roots to Seeds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations, and rare books on plant classification, collecting, and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRoots to Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e profiles the botanists and collections that have helped transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture, forestry, and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer's renowned illustrations for \u003cem\u003eFlora Graeca\u003c\/em\u003e—an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean—and rare plant specimens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild's Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models, and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341063831788,"sku":"9781851245611","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3011983482847.jpg?v=1772182774","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/roots-to-seeds-by-stephen-a-harris-9781851245611","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}