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Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 7, Number 2
(March 2005)

 

R. Bruce Allison. Every Root An Anchor: Wisconsin’s Famous and Historic Trees. Second edition. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005.

R. Bruce Allison. Wisconsin’s Champion Trees. Verona, Wis.: Wisconsin Book Publishing, 2005.

Jeff Beneke. The Fence Bible. North Adams, Mass.: Storey Publishing, 2005.

Elizabeth Hyde. Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture and Politics in the Reign of Louis IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Hideji Itokawa and Kuo–Hsiung Lee (editors). Taxus: The genus Taxus. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2003.

Liz Johnson. Easy Orchids. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2005.

Harriet L. Keeler. Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits and Peculiarities. Facsimile reproduction of original 1900 edition. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2005.

Deborah Noyes. Hana in the Time of the Tulips. Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2004.

Fred C. Sears and Kary C. Davis. Traditional Orcharding: Practical Methods for Growing and Marketing Fruit. Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2003.

Chip Ward. Hope’s Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land. Washington, D. C.: Island Press, 2004.

Keith Wiley. On the Wild Side: Experiments in New Naturalism. 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