Review
"...clearly and simply written with abundant and useful information...highly reliable." Douglas Darnowski, Plant Science Bulletin
"...strongly recommended for the professionals...could be used on the reading list for certain classes, especially advanced horticulture or taxonomy classes which deal with Iris...University libraries should purchase a copy." Douglas Darnowksi, Plant Science Bulletin
"This volume, destined to become a classic, will take its place beside the important earlier treatment The Genus Iris, by W.R. Dykes...Experts and dedicated gardeners alike will find this book an essential tool." Choice
"...I commend the editors for gathering together a vast amount of knowledge, much of it clearly the result of years of intimate study." John Manning, The Quarterly Review of Biology
Book Description
This volume provides the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W.R. Dykes early this century. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, contributors supply botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments, accompanied by generous illustrations with accurate line drawings, color pictures of unusual species and distribution maps. This new survey includes all of the species that have been described so far this century and takes into account the many changes in classification within the group.
Guide to Species Irises: Their Identification and Cultivation FROM THE PUBLISHER
This volume provides the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes early this century. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments are supplied, and the work is generously illustrated with accurate line drawings, colour pictures of unusual species and distribution maps. This new survey includes all of the species that have been described so far this century and takes into account the many changes in classification that have taken place in the group. Information currently scattered in the literature is brought together in one volume to provide an authoritative reference for professional botanists and growers, and a mine of useful information for amateur gardeners and iris enthusiasts.
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