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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 12, Number 6
(November 2010)


Charles B. Beck. An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development: Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century. Second edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Bonsai Association Belgium. Bonsai: Noelanders Trophy Ten Years — A Decade of Bonsai Exhibitions in Winter 2000–2009. Oostkamp, Belgium: Stichting Kunstboek, 2010.

Jan Busco and Nancy R. Morin. Native Plants for High-Elevation Western Gardens. Second edition. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2010.

Monty Don. The Ivington Diaries. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009.

John Leslie Dowe. Australian Palms: Biogeography, Ecology and Systematics. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2010.

Andrés R. Edwards. Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society. Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society Publishers, 2010.

Margaret B. Gargiullo. A Guide to Native Plants of the New York City Region. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Guido Hager. On Landscape Architecture. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2009.

Wendy Hollender. Botanical Drawing in Color: A Basic Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2010.

Michael J. Lannoo. Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Clive Stace. New Flora of the British Isles. Third edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Richard Stirzaker. Out of the Scientist’s Garden: A Story of Water and Food. Collingwood, Victoria, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2010.

Robert Twombly (editor). Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts. New York: Norton, 2010.

Katrien Van Moerbeke (editor). International Floral Art 2010–11. Oostkamp, Belgium: Stichting Kunstboek, 2010.

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