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

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