The Science of Plant Life

The Science of Plant Life is an illustrated edition and part of Popular Science Library book contributed by many authors and compiled by Norman Taylor. If you are looking to gather some fundamental information about the life of plants, then this book would be an useful read.
Throughout the book, it has often been convenient to refer to plants or

their behavior in terms implying reasoning faculties. Of course, plants

are never reasoning things, reasonable as many of their actions appear

to be, and to ascribe such qualities to them is to saddle them with

attributes perfectly foreign to the plant world. But the description of

them in the terms of our everyday speech, the translation of plant

behavior into the current conceptions of mankind, does so fix these in

our minds that they cease to be among those interesting things that

nearly everyone forgets. I have followed this method deliberately,

understanding perfectly the objections to it, but believing, with the

late C. E. Bessey, that in popular books “it is an admirable way of

looking at some botanical things.”