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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

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