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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: December 2008Botany & Plant ScienceALAN TITCHMARSH HOW TO GARDEN: CONTAINER GARDENING Alan Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title offers expert advice on hanging baskets, window boxes, patio pots and sink ...... Alan Titchmarsh's How to Garden 128 pp, photographs & b/w line drawings throughout. softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £6.99 | approx. $11/€8 ALAN TITCHMARSH HOW TO GARDEN: GARDEN DESIGN Alan Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these definitive guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. This title covers everything from the initial planning of your garden on paper to how ...... Alan Titchmarsh's How to Garden 144 pp, photographs & b/w line drawings throughout. softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £6.99 | approx. $11/€8 ALAN TITCHMARSH HOW TO GARDEN: VEGETABLES AND HERBS Alan Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh imparts a lifetime of expertise in these practical guides for beginners and experienced gardeners. Learn all the tricks to grow vegetables from seed, maintain mature plants, keep ...... Alan Titchmarsh's How to Garden 144 pp, photographs & b/w line drawings throughout. softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £6.99 | approx. $11/€8 AMERICAN CHESTNUT The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree Susan Freinkel New Paperback Edition The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees - a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic ...... 288 pp, 1 map, 1 line illus, 1 b/w photo. hardcover | 2007 | £16.95 | approx. $25/€18 softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £9.95 | approx. $15/€11 BOTâNICA SISTEMáTICA Guia ilustrado para identificaçao das familias de Fanerogamas nativas e exoticas no Brasil, baseado em APG II Vinicius C Souza and Harri Lorenzi Expanded edition of the identification guide, now covers 224 families of seed plants found in Brazil, with colour photographs of the principal genera. ......In Portuguese. 704 pp, 1408 colour photos. hardcover | 2008 | £76 | approx. $110/€78 CALIFORNIA PLANT FAMILIES West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts Glenn Keator and Margaret J Steunenberg Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied flora can be ...... 272 pp, b&w illus. hardcover | NYP 05/2009 | £38.95 | approx. $57/€40 softcover | NYP 05/2009 | £16.95 | approx. $25/€18 CHOCOLATE History, Culture, and Heritage Louis E Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro Chocolate. We all love it, but how much do we really know about it? In addition to pleasing palates since ancient times, chocolate has played an integral role in culture, society, religion, medicine, ...... 984 pp. hardcover | NYP 03/2009 | £58.95 | approx. $85/€61 COMPARATIVE PLANT VIROLOGY Roger Hull Comparative Plant Virology provides a complete overview of our current knowledge of plant viruses including background information on plant viruses and up-to-date aspects of virus biology and ...... 400 pp, 280 illustrations. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £37.99 | approx. $55/€39 DIRECTIONS FOR THE GARDINER AND OTHER HORTICULTURAL ADVICE John Evelyn John Evelyn is best known today for his Diary, second only in reputation to that of his friend and fellow-diarist, Samuel Pepys. In his own day he was famous for Sylva , his great work on trees ...... 336 pp, line drawings. hardcover | NYP 05/2009 | £14.99 | approx. $22/€16 EDEN Tim Smit New Paperback Edition With passion and commitment thousands of "small" people built the Eden Project in Cornwall as a symbol of hope in action...We may all have feet of clay, but that shouldn't stop us trying to make a ...... 286 pp, col photos, illus. hardcover | 2001 | £24.99 | approx. $36/€26 softcover | 2008 | £9.99 | approx. $15/€11 FLORA ZAMBESIACA, VOLUME 13, PART 1: ASPARAGACEAE, BEHNIACEAE, AGAVACEAE, ANTHERICACEAE, ALLIACEAE, AGAPANTHACEAE, AMARYLLIDACEAE Edited by Jonathan Timberlake 140 pp. softcover | 2008 | £20.99 | approx. $31/€22 FLORA UND VEGETATION DES SAUWALDES UND DER UMGRENZENDEN TäLER VON PRAM, INN UND DONAU - 40 JAHRE SPäTER Franz Grims In German Stapfia Series 87 263 pp. softcover | 2008 | £61 | approx. $88/€63 THE FORAGER HANDBOOK A Guide to the Edible Plants of Britain Miles Irving At any time, in any place, food is there for the taking - if only we knew how and where to look. Miles Irving makes his living out of foraging - in this unique, authentic guide, he reveals the how, ...... 304 pp, 50 illustrations. hardcover | NYP 05/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $36/€26 GARDENERS Encounters with Exceptional People Diana Ross Gardening writer Diana Ross visits twenty gardens and interviews their owners, including Roy Lancaster, Thomas Pakenham, Lady Salisbury, Beth Chatto and James Lovelock. She learns about their ...... 224 pp. hardcover | 2008 | £14.99 | approx. $22/€16 THE GREEN GARDEN EXPERT DG Hessayon Dr David Hessayon initiated a major innovation in gardening publications in 1959 with the first of his Gardening Expert guides. These best-selling guides have had an unparalleled influence on ...... 144 pp. softcover | NYP 02/2009 | £7.99 | approx. $12/€9 A HISTORY OF THE GARDENS OF VERSAILLES Michel Baridon and Adrienne Mason The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. The scale of the gardens is monumental, with a sense of openness to the horizon. They express the spirit of seventeenth-century science ...... 312 pp, 48 illustrations. hardcover | 2008 | £35.99 | approx. $52/€37 ILLUSTRIERTE FLORA VON MITTELEUROPA, BAND 6, TEIL 2A: CUCURBITACEAE, CAPRIFOLIACEAE, ADOXACEAE, VALERIANACEAE UND CAMPANULACEAE Edited by Gustav Hegi and Gerhard Wagenitz hardcover | 2008 | £198 | approx. $285/€203 INTRODUCTION TO BRYOPHYTES Alain Vanderpoorten and Bernard Goffinet Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly acknowledged. This ...... 292 pp, illus. hardcover | NYP 05/2009 | £60 | approx. $87/€62 softcover | NYP 05/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $36/€26 THE LENTIL Botany, Production and Uses W Erskine, F Muehlbauer, A Sarker and B Sharma Though of ancient origin, the lentil is today very much a crop of the modern world confronted with issues of food security, poverty, water scarcity and the need to find sustainable agricultural ...... 416 pp, 30 colour plates, illus. hardcover | NYP 06/2009 | £95 | approx. $137/€98 THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF FOOD PLANTS John G Vaughan and Catherine A Geissler New Edition The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical illustrations are accompanied by ...... 280 pp, 100 col illus, tabs. hardcover | NYP 06/2009 | £19.99 | approx. $29/€21 PALMS OF SOUTHERN ASIA Andrew Henderson Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of ...... 264 pp, 256 colour illus, 16 line illus, 336 maps. hardcover | NYP 05/2009 | £53 | approx. $77/€55 PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGY Park S Nobel New Edition The functioning of all living systems obeys the laws of physics in fundamental ways. This is true for all physiological processes that occur inside cells, tissues, organs, and organisms. ...... 474 pp, b&w illustrations. hardcover | NYP 02/2009 | £44.99 | approx. $65/€46 PLANT GROWTH Interactions with Nutrition and Environment Edited by JR Porter and DW Lawlor New Paperback Edition Nutrition is a major environmental factor in regulating plant growth, and is therefore of significant practical concern to agriculturalists and ecologists. In order to achieve efficient ...... Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series 43 260 pp, 74 illus, 31 tabs. softcover | 2008 | £27.99 | approx. $41/€29 PLANT PATHOGENIC BACTERIA Genomics and Molecular Biology Edited by RW Jackson Bacteria pathogenic for plants are responsible for devastating losses in agriculture. The use of antibiotics to control such infections is restricted in many countries due to worries over the ...... 330 pp, figs, tabs. hardcover | 2008 | £213 | approx. $307/€218 PLASTID BIOLOGY Kevin Pyke Plastids reside in all plant cells, and take on different forms in relation to their cellular function, biochemistry and storage capacity. The modern era of molecular biology and molecular ...... 180 pp, figs, tabs. hardcover | NYP 03/2009 | £50 | approx. $72/€52 softcover | NYP 03/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $36/€26 RHS PLANT FINDER 2009-2010 Royal Horticultural Society Find the right plants for your garden with the 2009-10 edition of RHS Plantfinder from the experts at the RHS. Whatever plant you are looking for, your'll find it: with over 4,000 new entries you can ...... 976 pp. softcover | NYP 04/2009 | £15.99 | approx. $24/€17 RECUEIL DES PLANTES UTILISEES EN MEDECINE TRADITIONELLE CONGOLAISE PROVINCE DE L'EQUATEUR, VOLUME 1 Paul Latham CD | 2008 | £16.68 | approx. $25/€18 RESOURCE STRATEGIES OF WILD PLANTS Joseph M Craine Over millions of years, terrestrial plants have competed for limited resources, defended themselves against herbivores, and resisted a myriad of environmental stresses. These struggles have ...... 344 pp. hardcover | NYP 06/2009 | £59.95 | approx. $87/€62 softcover | NYP 06/2009 | £26.95 | approx. $39/€28 RHYNCHOSPORA (CYPERACEAE) OF SOUTH CALIFORNIA AND THE EASTERN UNITED STATES Patrick McMillan 267 pp, figs, tabs, illus. softcover | 2007 | £67 | approx. $97/€69 THE WILD FLOWERS OF THE ISLE OF PURBECK, BROWNSEA AND SANDBANKS Edward A Pratt The Isle of Purbeck is the richest area in Britain for its size for wild flowers. So what better place to get to see them? This book directs you to precise localities where you can see species in ...... 352 pp, colour photos, line drawings, maps. softcover | 2008 | £22.99 | approx. $34/€24 |
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