THE 



GREAT WORLD'S FARM 



SOME JCCOUNT OF NATURE'S CROPS 

 ^ND HOIF THEY JRE GRO^N 



BY 



SELINA GAYE 



Autlwrof 'The Worlds Lumber-Room* 

 * Coming,' etc. 



WITH A PREFACE BY 

 G. S. BOULGER, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Professor o/ Botany d^* Geology in tJie City of London College 



The world is one vast garden, bringing forth crops of the most 

 luxuriant and varied kind, century after century, and millennium 

 after imUennium. Yet the face of Nature is nowhere furrowed by 

 the plough, no harrow disintegrates the clods, no lime and phos- 

 phates are strewn upo i its fields, no visible tillage of the soil 

 improves the work on the great ivorlcT s farm: 



H. Drum MONO, " Tropical Africa* 



NctD Dork 

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