The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening
Nature Publishing Group
Published on 17. May 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
3336 pages
978-0-333-77018-4 (ISBN)
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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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
4000 illustrations, bibliography, glossaries, index
Dimensions
Height: 322 mm
Width: 280 mm
Weight
6275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77018-4 (9780333770184)
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Editor
University Botanic Garden, Kew, and Fellow, Linnean Society