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Education — Lenhardt Library

Current Books & Book Reviews

Volume 9, Number 4
(July 2007)

 

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

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