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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 6, Number 5
(September 2004)

 

William M. Adams. Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation. London: Earthscan, 2004.

Tony Avent. So You Want to Start a Nursery. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Masha Bennet. Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Susan Berry. Container Topiary. San Diego, Calif.: Laurel Glen, 2003.

Mary Blocksma. Great Lakes Nature: An Outdoor Year. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Dominique Browning. Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener. New York: Scribner, 2004.

John Dighton. Fungi in Ecosystem Processes. New York: Dekker, 2003.

Betsey Dexter Dyer. A Field Guide to Bacteria. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003.

David A. Francko. Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths: Warm-climate Plants for Cooler Areas. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Susan Garland. Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow. London: Frances Lincoln Children's Books (distributed by Publishers Group West, Berkeley, Calif.), 2004 (Children's book).

Diarmuid Gavin. Outer Spaces. New York: DK Publishing, 2003.

Suzi Golodoff. Wildflowers of Unalaska Island: A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2003.

Robert M. Goodman (editor). Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. New York: Dekker, 2004.

Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barhtem, and Efrem Ferreira. Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.

C. Z. Guest. First Garden: An Illustrated Garden Primer. New York: Rizzoli, 2003.

Ian Hall, Steven Stephenson, Peter K. Buchanan, Wang Yun, and Anthony L.J. Cole. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Philip Harkness. Reliable Roses. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2004.

Mary Ann Hoberman. Whose Garden Is It? New York: Gulliver Books, 2004 (Children's book).

Amanda Jarrett. Ornamental Tropical Shrubs. Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, 2003.

Shizhen Li. Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual. Translated and researched by F. Porter Smith and G.A. Stuart. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2003, c. 1973.

 

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