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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

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