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• catalog abstract "The first four chapters are introductory. They lay the foundation for what follows. Chapters five through twelve are the heart of the story. They describe the anvils of adversity on which the plants of our day were forged through the ages: the Coal Age, Drifting Continents, and the Ice Age. Beginning with Chapter thirteen, the last eight chapters deal with the pattern of the countryside as it is today, showing how our trees and flowers have traveled around the world to reach their present locations.".
• catalog contributor b853647.
• catalog created "1947.".
• catalog date "1947".
• catalog date "1947.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1947.".
• catalog description "1. Playthings of Time: The thrilling life story of our trees and flowers is revealed in the elasticity of birch wood, the tenacity of oak leaves, and other signs. -- 2. Life's Greatest Invention: The miracle of the living cell. The first land plants climb out of the water. -- 3. From Horsetails to Daisies: The never-changing laws of nature evolve ever-changing forms of plants. Moss - fern - horsetail - ginko - pine tree - sycamore - daisy. -- 4. The Discovery of the Vanished Plants: How fossils were made and the dramatic story they tell. The world's first forest in the Catskill Mountains. -- 5. The Carbon Swamp: The climax of the coal jungles. The warm salt sea over North America. The story of vanished Appalachia. -- 6. Gondwanaland: A strange shrub sweeps across a hemisphere. Continents drift apart. -- 7. The Naked Seed Revolution: The most ancient trees living today. Time's curtain rises on the Age of Pines -- ".
• catalog description "15. Vertical Magic: 100 feet up = 60 miles north. The continental zones flow up mountains and stand there in miniature. -- 16. The Trapped Plants: Crane Dunes, Bartholomew's Cobble, Starved Rock, and other eddies and whirlpools of plants left behind when the forest marches north. -- 17. The Iceless Island: Ten thousand square miles in Wisconsin preserve the aspect of the pre-Ice Age. -- 18. Traveling Trees: Why Europe lost our species, while the flora of northeast Asia is similar to northeast United States. -- 19. The Footsteps of the Forest: How the encased seed carried our forest intact on its world-wide travels. -- 20. Seed Machines: Descriptions of nine remarkable precision mechanisms. -- 21. Shall Weeds Inherit the Earth?: A question to ponder before we cut down all the forest -- Books for Further Reading and Reference -- Index -- Index of Illustrations".
• catalog description "8. The Encased Seed Touches off a New World: Plants acquire a new kind of power that lays the cornerstone of our flowering world. -- 9. The Tidal Wave of Flowering Plants: Colorful flowers and beautiful leaves spread through our country as the Age of Pines fades. -- 10. World's First Hardwood Forest: A great forest above the Arctic Circle radiates southward. Plants are now equipped and ready for the Glacier. -- 11. The Big Ice: How a dome of ice two miles high is build in Labrador. The forest retreats. -- 12. God's Bid Plow: Our familiar landscape is built, and the soil prepared fro the future woods and fields. -- 13. The Eternal Plants: Seaweed and other remarkable plants that defy time and change. How the unique lichen acts as the patrol of the forest. -- 14. Marching Zones: The forest traveling north forms its order of march: Arctics, Scrubs, Spires, Hardwoods. -- ".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 257-259.".
• catalog description "The first four chapters are introductory. They lay the foundation for what follows. Chapters five through twelve are the heart of the story. They describe the anvils of adversity on which the plants of our day were forged through the ages: the Coal Age, Drifting Continents, and the Ice Age. Beginning with Chapter thirteen, the last eight chapters deal with the pattern of the countryside as it is today, showing how our trees and flowers have traveled around the world to reach their present locations.".
• catalog extent "278 p., 8 leaves of plates :".
• catalog hasFormat "Our flowering world.".
• catalog isFormatOf "Our flowering world.".
• catalog issued "1947".
• catalog issued "1947.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Dodd, Mead,".
• catalog relation "Our flowering world.".
• catalog spatial "America.".
• catalog subject "581.97".
• catalog subject "Botany America.".
• catalog subject "Botany History.".
• catalog subject "Phytogeography.".
• catalog subject "Plants Evolution.".
• catalog subject "QK46 .P55".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Playthings of Time: The thrilling life story of our trees and flowers is revealed in the elasticity of birch wood, the tenacity of oak leaves, and other signs. -- 2. Life's Greatest Invention: The miracle of the living cell. The first land plants climb out of the water. -- 3. From Horsetails to Daisies: The never-changing laws of nature evolve ever-changing forms of plants. Moss - fern - horsetail - ginko - pine tree - sycamore - daisy. -- 4. The Discovery of the Vanished Plants: How fossils were made and the dramatic story they tell. The world's first forest in the Catskill Mountains. -- 5. The Carbon Swamp: The climax of the coal jungles. The warm salt sea over North America. The story of vanished Appalachia. -- 6. Gondwanaland: A strange shrub sweeps across a hemisphere. Continents drift apart. -- 7. The Naked Seed Revolution: The most ancient trees living today. Time's curtain rises on the Age of Pines -- ".
• catalog tableOfContents "15. Vertical Magic: 100 feet up = 60 miles north. The continental zones flow up mountains and stand there in miniature. -- 16. The Trapped Plants: Crane Dunes, Bartholomew's Cobble, Starved Rock, and other eddies and whirlpools of plants left behind when the forest marches north. -- 17. The Iceless Island: Ten thousand square miles in Wisconsin preserve the aspect of the pre-Ice Age. -- 18. Traveling Trees: Why Europe lost our species, while the flora of northeast Asia is similar to northeast United States. -- 19. The Footsteps of the Forest: How the encased seed carried our forest intact on its world-wide travels. -- 20. Seed Machines: Descriptions of nine remarkable precision mechanisms. -- 21. Shall Weeds Inherit the Earth?: A question to ponder before we cut down all the forest -- Books for Further Reading and Reference -- Index -- Index of Illustrations".
• catalog tableOfContents "8. The Encased Seed Touches off a New World: Plants acquire a new kind of power that lays the cornerstone of our flowering world. -- 9. The Tidal Wave of Flowering Plants: Colorful flowers and beautiful leaves spread through our country as the Age of Pines fades. -- 10. World's First Hardwood Forest: A great forest above the Arctic Circle radiates southward. Plants are now equipped and ready for the Glacier. -- 11. The Big Ice: How a dome of ice two miles high is build in Labrador. The forest retreats. -- 12. God's Bid Plow: Our familiar landscape is built, and the soil prepared fro the future woods and fields. -- 13. The Eternal Plants: Seaweed and other remarkable plants that defy time and change. How the unique lichen acts as the patrol of the forest. -- 14. Marching Zones: The forest traveling north forms its order of march: Arctics, Scrubs, Spires, Hardwoods. -- ".
• catalog title "Our flowering world / By Rutherford Platt ; With 168 photographs by the author, 38 in full color. --".
• catalog type "text".