botany
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From architecture to botany to labor practices, the people, places and culture with which Jefferson interacted became integral to the vision of America he would begin to implement on his return to the States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
He learned through writing the book that his mother hailed from a “family of brilliant and daring misfits who had carved new paths in botany and medicine and left-wing politics,” he writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2026
Simon Milne, whose formal title is regius keeper, has been recognised for his services to botany, conservation and horticulture.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
"It covers a very significant amount of area," Naomi Fraga, director of conservation at the California Botanic Garden and research assistant professor of botany at Claremont Graduate University, told Salon.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
I have trouble falling asleep, because I can’t stop thinking about Mom wanting to study botany, or why this book couldn’t be on the shelves of the Ranch’s library.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Frequently she smiled when she read statements in her botanies as to where plants and vegetables could be found.
From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
The fruit-bearing palms require a chapter to themselves in the botanies, and are a source of surprising wealth.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
Flowers shall again outblossom botanies, and gymnasts of music shall be laid low, and Birds Through An Opera Glass shall sing.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
She was familiar with many members of she family, but such a fine specimen she seldom had found and she could not recall having seen it in all of her botanies.
From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
The "virtues of flowers" took a prominent place in the descriptions in old-time botanies.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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