Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 6, Number 6
(November 2004)

 

Barbara Abbs. Choosing and Using Climbing Plants. San Diego, Calif.: Laurel Glen, 2003.

American Heritage Children’s Science Dictionary. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Jerry Baker. Giant Book of Garden Solutions: 1,954 Natural Remedies to Handle your Toughest Garden Problems. Wixom, Mich.: American Master Products, 2003.

Alan and Gill Bridgewater. Stonework: Building Rock Gardens, Walks, Walls, and Ornaments. Stillwater, Minn.: Voyageur Press, 2002.

Sonia Faure. Hideaways: Cabins, Huts and Tree House Escapes. Paris: Flammarion, 2003.

Judy Glattstein. Consider the Leaf: Foliage in Garden Design. Portland, Ore.: Timber Press, 2003.

Philip Harnden. A Gardener’s Guide to Frost: Outwit the Weather and Extend the Spring and Fall Seasons. Minocqua, Wis.: Willow Creek Press, 2003.

Patrick Herman and Richard Kuper. Food for Thought: Towards a Future for Farming. London; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, 2003.

James Hitchmough and Ken Fieldhouse (editors). Plant User Handbook: A Guide to Effective Specifying. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2004.

Andrew H. Knoll. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Paul H. Li and E. Tapio Palva (editors). Plant Cold Hardiness: Gene Regulation and Genetic Engineering. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.

 

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