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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 9, Number 2
(March 2007)

 

Julie Bawden-Davis. Indoor Gardening the Organic Way: How to Create a Natural and Sustaining Environment for Your Houseplants. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007.

Jochen Bockemühl and Kari Jävinen. Extraordinary Plant Qualities for Biodynamics. Translation by David Heaf. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2006 (distributed by Steiner Books, Herndon, Va.).

Jackum Brown. Conservatory Style: Garden Rooms, Glasshouses, and Sunrooms. New York: Universe Press, 2007.

Paul Martin Brown. Wild Orchids of the Prairies and Great Plains Region of North America. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.

S.B. Chincholkar and K.G. Mukerji (editors). Biological Control of Plant Diseases. Binghampton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, 2007.

Peter Coates. American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Alan Crozier, Michael N. Clifford, and Hiroshi Ashihara (editors). Plant Secondary Metabolites: Occurrence, Structure and Role in the Human Diet. Ames, Ia.: Blackwell, 2006.

Geoffrey R. Dixon. Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers. Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, 2007.

James Dodson. Beautiful Madness. New York: Plume Paperbacks, 2007.

Derek Fell. Encyclopedia of Hardy Plants: Annuals, Bulbs, Herbs, Perennials, Shrubs, Trees, Vegetables, Fruits & Nuts. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2007.

Des Kennedy. The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb. Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, 2006.

Amita Sinha. Landscape in India: Forms and Meanings. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2006.

Thomas J. Stohlgren. Measuring Plant Diversity: Lessons from the Field. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Ken Thompson. Compost. New York: DK Publishing, 2007.

 

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