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'There is a wealth of information here, both scientific and practical. The authors have achieved what might have seemed impossible: they have taken a step towards the relief of the botanist's frustration in the garden and at the same time they have provided the horticulturalist with a concise compendium of modern botanical knowledge.' Nature
'... one of the most important horticultural publishing ventures of the century ... The work aims to describe not only all the woody and herbaceous plants known to grow in gardens throughout the continent but also those we grow in greenhouses. The eventual total will be more than 25,000. While the illustrations are of line drawings, which usually tell you much more than photographs, throughout there are keys by which, when the six volumes are complete, you will be able to identify almost any garden plant you are ever likely to encounter.' The Daily Telegraph
Book Description
The European Garden Flora has become the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. Although designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect as well as to the professional botanist. Volume 4 contains accounts of forty-eight families of dicotyledons, including large, horticulturally important genera such as Rosa, Saxifraga and Sedum. Comprehensive keys are provided at the level of family, genus and species and line diagrams are included to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa. Reference is made to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts, and a small amount of guidance on cultivation is provided for each genus. This book will be a valuable reference for professionals and informed amateurs in horticulture, landscape architecture, and botany.
European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and under Glass, Vol. IV - Dicotyledons (Part II),The European Garden Flora Editorial Committee,Cambridge University Press,0521420954,Nature,Nature / Field Guide Books,Nature/Ecology,Ornamental Plants,Plants - General,Taxonomic Botany,Botany & plant sciences,Europe,Gardening,Science / Botany
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