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Katie Campbell. Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design. London: Frances Lincoln, 2007.
James Cullen. Practical Plant Identification: Including a Key to Native and Cultivated Flowering Plant Families in North Temperate Regions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Liza Dalby. East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir Through the Seasons. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Sonia Day. The Plant Doctor: A Practical Guide to Having a Healthy Garden. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006.
Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing. The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest
Challenge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Christine Finnie (editor). Plant Proteomics. Ames, Ia.: Blackwell, 2006.
Kris M. Havstad, Laura F. Huenneke, and William H. Schlesinger. Structure and Function of a Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem: The Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Site. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Paul Cawood Hellmund and Daniel Somers Smith. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006.
Chuck A. Ingels, Pamela M. Geisel, and Maxwell V. Norton (editors). The Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees. Davis: Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of California, 2007.
John Langton and Graham Jones (editors). Forests and Chases of England and Wales c. 1500 – c. 1850: Towards a Survey & Analysis. Oxford: St. John’s College Research Centre, 2005.
Nadine Olonetsky. Sensations: A Time Travel Through Garden History. Boston: Birkhäuser, 2007.
Dermot O’Neill. Roses Revealed. Batavia, Ill.: Ball Publishing, 2007.
Håkan Rydin and John K. Jeglum. The Biology of Peatlands. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Scott C. Scarfone. Professional Planting Design: An Architectural and Horticultural Approach for Creating Mixed Bed Plantings. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2007.
Ceiridwen Terrill. Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 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