Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 6, Number 4
(July 2004)

 

Rosemary Barrett. Maples. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2004.

Margaret Barwick. Tropical and Subtropical Trees: An Encyclopedia. Portland, Ore.:Timber Press, 2004.

William W. Dunmire. Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.

Phyllis M. Faber. California’s Wild Gardens: A Guide to Favorite Botanical Sites. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Patricia Fara. Sex, Bounty, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.

Eric Higgs. Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.

Hannah Holmes. Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.

Matt James. The City Gardener: Urban Oasis. London: Collins, 2004.

Christopher Lloyd. Succession Planting for Year–round Pleasure. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2005.

Bill McClaren. Encyclopedia of Dahlias. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2004.

Wendy Pfeffer. From Seed to Pumpkin. Illustrations by James Graham Hale. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Steven Pinker (editor). Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Dan Prendergast and Erin Prendergast. The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2003.

Torsten Ulmer and John M. Macdougal. Passiflora: Passionflowers of the World. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2004.

 

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