Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 7, Number 1
(January 2005)

 

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

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