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The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening

editor in chief, Anthony Huxley ; editor, Mark Griffiths ; managing editor, Margot Levy

Macmillan Reference, 1999

  • : set : pbk
  • 1 : A to C
  • 2 : D to J
  • 3 : K to Q
  • 4 : R to Z

Other Title

Dictionary of gardening

The new RHS dictionary of gardening

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Originally published: 1992

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This title is designed as an accessible scholarly resource with practical information for gardeners. It encompasses a vast range of plants grown on a domestic or commercial scale in private gardens or present in specialist and botanical collections. They are plants grown for ornament, for amenity or for economic use, and they include a vast range of cultivars. Each entry has been written according to the exacting scientific standards. Features include: 50,000 plants described; concise botanical accounts of species in cultivation throughout the world, in line with the latest taxonomic thinking; practical advice on how to grow every plant described; nearly 200 articles on horticultural science and practice, newly commissioned from leading authorities; 175 biographies of figures in horticulture, botany and garden design; fully cross referenced; cumulative bibliography, arranged by subject; botanical and horticultural glossaries - a grammar of gardening; and 3000 specially commissioned line drawings of plants and gardening techniques.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA41888986
  • ISBN
    • 0333770188
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    4 v.
  • Size
    28 cm
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