Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 11, Number 5
(September 2009)

 

Rick Bennett and Susan Calla (editors). A Rare Botanical Legacy: The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer in Northwestern California. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2009.

Chip Brantley. The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.

Susan Colleen Browne and John F. Browne. Little Farm in the Foothills: A Boomer Couple's Search for the Slow Life. Bellingham, Wash.: Whitethorn Press, 2009.

Novella Carpenter. Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Timothy Clark. Mary McMurtrie's Country Garden Flowers. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Garden Art Press (distributed in U.S. by ACC Distribution, New York), 2009.

Joseph M. Craine. Resource Strategies of Wild Plants. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Oliver H. Creighton. Designs Upon the Land: Elite Landscapes of the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Boydell Press, 2009.

Lucinda Fleeson. Waking up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.

Henry J. Frundt. Fair Bananas: Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Mark Gleason, Margery L. Daughtrey, Ann R. Chase, Gary W. Moorman, and Daren S. Mueller. Diseases of Herbaceous Perennials. St. Paul, Minn.: American Phytopathological Society (APS) Press, 2009.

Leah Knight. Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009.

Sharon Leah (editor). Llewellyn's Herbal Almanac 2010. Woodbury, Minn.: Llewellyn Worldwide, 2009.

Nancy J. Ondra. The Perennial Care Manual: A Plant-by-Plant Guide — What to Do & When to Do It. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, 2009.

Katherine T. von Stackelberg. The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society. New York: Routledge, 2009.

David Streeter, C. Hart-Davies, A. Hardcastle, F. Cole, and L. Harper. Collins Flower Guide: The Most Complete Guide to the Flowers of Britain and Europe. London: HarperCollins, 2009.

Tim Waterman. The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing SA, 2009.

Current Books is an Internet–only journal reviewing new books about gardening, horticulture and botany. Reviews cover a wide range of new literature in print and are written primarily by the staff and volunteers of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Please send your comments and suggestions to reviews@chicagobotanic.org

Edward J. Valauskas
Editor, Current Books on Gardening & Botany
Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden