Agricultural and Botanical Explorations in Palestine |
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Author:
| Aaronsohn, Aaron |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-76991-4 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $13.05 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: long, just beneath the surface of the ground. These roots form large nodules, probably because of the sting of an insect, though this matter, so far as I know, has not been studied. These nodules are tolerably close together and like knots in cords, thus making the shrub very valuable in the fixation of...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: long, just beneath the surface of the ground. These roots form large nodules, probably because of the sting of an insect, though this matter, so far as I know, has not been studied. These nodules are tolerably close together and like knots in cords, thus making the shrub very valuable in the fixation of dunes. A related species, Calligonum caput-medusae, has been used with remarkable results in the fixation of dunes from the Caspian Sea to Turkestan. It is not my intention in this bulletin to give a complete list of the plants which it would be advantageous to import from Palestine. I wish simply to give a few examples to illustrate the interest that Palestine and the surrounding countries, Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia, should awaken in the United States. These countries have been centers of cultivation for many centuries and contain products of great importance to the progress of agriculture, both in their wild types and in the cultivated forms in which they have been grown from time immemorial. WILD PROTOTYPES OF WHEAT AND OTHER, CEREALS IN PALESTINE. HISTORICAL, INTEREST OF WILD WHEAT. Thirty years ago De Candolle said that the question of the origin of cultivated plants was of importance not only to agriculturists and botanists but to historians, philosophers, and all who are interested in the birth and development of civilization. The fathers of history, Herodotus, Homer, Diodorus of Sicily, and others who lived in the age when mythical deities ruled the minds of the people, always attributed to some god the task of having taught men the uses of plants. At one time and in one nation it was Isis and Osiris; at another, Ceres or Demeter of Triptolemus; but never a thought was given to man's own ingenuity or to his own need as the reason for cultivati...