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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.

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