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How Does a Tree Grow? Or, Botany for Young Australians

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A father guides his curious son through basic botany in a conversational frame that explains how plants build wood and grow. The text breaks plant matter into carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, notes that water combines gases, and describes leaves absorbing atmospheric gases and carbonic acid. It traces nutrients from ash and soil into plants via rootlets, surveys minerals found in plant ash, and shows that different species require different soil foods. The account also examines soil fertility, the effects of overuse or excess richness, and practical manures such as wood ashes, seaweed, and bone dust.

Works by the same Author.

GEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA AND
NEW ZEALAND.

Cloth, 4s.

Illustrated with Four Maps of the Colonies.

Sanctioned in the schools of the National and Denominational School Boards of Victoria.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

Mr. Bonwick has been for many years resident in these colonies; he has had access to the best sources of information; he has been indefatigable in his efforts to produce a book which might be a standard one on the subjects it treats; and he has succeeded.—Melbourne Argus.


DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF PORT PHILLIP.

Future historians will turn to it as a repertory of valuable facts, lucidly, systematically, and chronologically stated.—Melbourne Argus.


MAP OF VICTORIA.

Affording information upon Geological Features, Roads, &c.


THE BUSHRANGERS;
Illustrating the Early Days of Van Dieman’s Land.

The book is by no means a mere Newgate Calendar, but something infinitely better. It exhibits a correct position of the state of society in earlier days.—Hobart Town Colonial Times.


GEOGRAPHY FOR YOUNG AUSTRALIANS. 1s.

One half the book relates to the Geography of the Colonies, prepared for the use of Junior Classes.


WILLIAM BUCKLEY, THE WILD WHITE MAN,
And his Port Phillip Black Friends. 2s.


THE EARLY DAYS OF MELBOURNE.

1s. Cloth, Illustrated.


Now Publishing,

EARLY TIMES OF ENGLAND FOR YOUNG
AUSTRALIANS;

AND

BIBLE STORIES FOR YOUNG AUSTRALIANS.


Goodhugh & Hough, Printers, Flinders Lane.


TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Archaic or alternate spelling which may have been in use at the time of publication has been retained.