Chicago Botanic Garden

Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 7, Number 5
(September 2005)

 

Lynn R. Batdorf. Boxwood: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Boyce, Va.: American Boxwood Society, 2004.

Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes (editors). Design With Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

Christopher Brickell and H. Marc Cathey (editors-in-chief). The American Horticultural Society A–Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Revised edition. New York: DK Publishing, 2004.

Steve Cafferty (editor). Firefly Encyclopedia of Trees. Buffalo, N,Y,: Firefly Books, 2005.

Emma Clark. The Art of the Islamic Garden. Ramsbury, Marlborough, U.K.: Crowood Press, 2004 (distributed in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square).

Joan Clifton. Climbing Gardens: Adding Height and Structure to Your Garden. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2003.

Monty Don. Gardening from Berryfields. London: BBC Books, 2005 (distributed in U.S. by Trafalgar Square).

David Edmunds and Eva Wollenberg. Local Forest Management: The Impacts of Devolution Policies. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2003.

Jonathan Edwards. The First–Time Gardener or Everything the Beginner Needs to Know to Create, Maintain and Enjoy a Garden. London: Carroll & Brown, 2003 (distributed in U.S. by Trafalgar Square).

Edward O. Guerrant, Jr., Kayri Havens, and Mick Maunder. Ex Situ Plant Conservation: Supporting Species Survival in the Wild. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004.

Ray Lambert. John Constable and the Theory of Landscape Painting. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Tim Lang and Michael Heasman. Food Wars: The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets. Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, 2004.

Laurie Lisle. Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life. New York: Random House, 2005.

 

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