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The vanishing garden : a conservation guide to garden plants / Christopher Brickell and Fay Sharman.
LIBRA QK86 .B84 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brickell, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plant conservation.
- Rare plants.
- Plants, Ornamental.
- Garden ecology.
- Physical Description:
- x unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Murray in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, 1986.
- Summary:
- The Vanishing Garden is for all those who are concerned about the future of our cultivated plants. It draws attention to the serious threat facing them and show how many garden plants are in danger of disappearing and how many may have been lost for ever. Bases on eighty plant genera, the book describes several hundred endangered species and varieties and illustrates what steps can be taken to safeguard them.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 243-246.
- ISBN:
- 0719542669 :
- OCLC:
- 60074537
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