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Plants (Botany)Botanical Classification Cronquist, Arthur. An integrated system of classification of flowering plants. (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, [1992], c1981). Illus.; bibliography. *R-QEC 93-9155. Gleason, Henry A., and Arthur Cronquist. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 2nd ed. (Bronx, N.Y.: N.Y. Botanical Garden, c1991). *R-QFT 92-3868. Hickey, Michael, and Clive King. 100 families of flowering plants. 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988). Illus.; bibliography. *R-QEC 88-3126. Rickett, Harold W., and others. Wild flowers of the United States. 6 vols. in 14 pts. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966-73). Illus. with col. Photographs. *RR-QFT (Rickett...) Encyclopedic survey published by the New York Botanical Garden. Arranged geographically by regions -- Northeastern, Northwestern, Southeastern, Southwestern, Central mountains and plains states, and Texas. Johnson, Hugh. The international book of trees: a guide and a tribute to the trees of our forests and gardens. (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1973). Illus. *R-VQS 74-4355. Preston, Richard J. North American trees: exclusive of Mexico and tropical Florida. 4th ed. (Ames: Iowa St. Univ. Press, 1989). Illus. *R-VQV 89-23435. Horticulture (Cultivated Plants, Including House Plants) It should be kept in mind that many plants included in horticultural manuals grow wild in their native habitats. This applies particularly to tropical houseplants and trees described in Exotica and Tropica.The American Horticultural Society encyclopedia of gardening. Editor-in-Chief, Christopher Brickell. (London, New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993). Illus. *R-VQC 93-12504. The American Horticultural Society encyclopedia of garden plants. Editor-in-Chief, Christopher Brickell. (New York: Macmillan, 1989). illus. *R-VQG 93-9898. Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Hortus third: a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada... Rev. and expanded by the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium [at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.]. (New York: Macmillan, c1976). Illus. with line drawings. *R-VQC 78-269. An essential work for serious research in this area. Everett, Thomas H. The New York Botanical Garden illustrated encyclopedia of horticulture. 10 vols. (New York: Garland, c1980-82). Illus., some colored. *R-VQC 81-481. Exhaustive yet basic how-to book of gardening and house plants. Graf, Alfred B. Exotica 3, pictorial cyclopedia of exotic plants: guide to care of plants indoors. 2 vols. (Rutherford, N.J.: Roehrs, 1963). Illus. with photographs, many colored. *R-VQ. Graf, Alfred B. Tropica: color cyclopedia of exotic plants and trees from the tropics and subtropics: for warm-region horticulture, in cool climate the sheltered indoors. (East Rutherford, N.J.: Roehrs, 1978). Illus. with photographs. *R-VQF 79-4026. Graf's exhaustive classics, although not easy to use, are essential pictorial sources for information on house and conservatory plants. Grigson, Geoffrey. The Englishman's flora: illustrated with woodcuts from sixteenth century herbals. (London: Phoenix House, 1987, c1955). Illus.; bibliography. *R-QEG 93-7897. A classic of botanical folklore and medical botany. Grieve, Maud. A modern herbal: the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs, and trees with all their modern scientific uses. (New York: Penguin, 1988 [1931]). lllus. *R-QEN 93-4238. Rodale's illustrated encyclopedia of herbs. ed. by Claire Kowalchick and William H. Hylton. (Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, Press, c1987). *R-VQI 93-9899. Simon, James E., and others. Herbs: an indexed bibliography, 1971-1980: the scientific literature on selected herbs, and aromatic and medicinal plants in the temperate zone. (Hamden, Conn: Archon, 1984). *RS-QEN 87-2456. |