Describes 50,000 plants and discusses all aspects of gardening

The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. 4 Volumes.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain)

Mark Griffiths

Anthony Julian Huxley

Gardening & Landscape Design

MacMillan/Stockton Press

The RHS Shorter Dictionary of Gardening is a comprehensive, quick-reference source to gardening and horticulture. Compiled with keen gardeners and students particularly in mind, it gathers into one volume a treasure trove of information and advice about plants, practical horticulture and cultivation techniques, botanical and gardening terms, pests and diseases and common names. The A to Z style provides easy access to a huge range of essential information, creating an effective gardening library in one volume and drawing together information that would usually appear in a number of gardening books. The diverse content includes references to little-known aspects of the subject as well as explanations of all the practical details of the gardener's craft. It contains descriptions of over 1900 genera with many more references to species, hybrids and cultivars. Included throughout the text are colour photographs and specially commissioned line drawings that illustrate gardens, plants and gardening techniques.

The Royal Horticultural Society Shorter Dictionary of Gardening

Michael Pollock

Macmillan

Prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. Found in a dazzling array of forms and colors, orchids—hard to obtain and harder still to maintain—are treasured as the rarest and most exclusive of plants. This glorious volume illustrates the most exquisite specimens of the flower with botanical artworks from the unrivaled collection of the Royal Horticultural Society in England. 
Reproduced here for the first time are the stunning watercolor portraits commissioned for the Society's prize-winning orchid every year since 1897. These and other spectacular illustrations combine with a text by one of the world's foremost experts on orchids to make this the ultimate pictorial history and reference on the most glamorous flower of all.

The Orchid: From the Archives of the Royal Horticultural Society

Arts & Photography

Harry N. Abrams

The history of Guinness, from its humble beginnings in the pubs of Dublin to its spread to bars in Nigeria and Indonesia, is explored in this fascinating analysis of the 250-year-old brand. Popular Guinness ads from across the years are included, as well as information on current company practices and marketing campaigns.Each title in this series features an in-depth, biographical look at one of today's top brands, such as Guinness, Adidas, and Starbucks. The brands included have all established themselves not only as financial successes but also as cultural icons. The storytelling style and eye-catching design of the books make learning about these innovative brands stimulating and enjoyable.

Guinness Is Guinness : The Colourful Story of a Black and White Brand

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

Cyan Books

"A fabulous work. Highly recommended." -Library JournalOrchids were brought to Europe from the tropics and subtropics beginning in the 17th century, and by 1839, English plant nurseries were selling 1,600 different kinds of the flower. Long prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in Orchids. This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. Now in a reduced format, Orchids is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower. AUTHOR BIO: Mark Griffiths, one of the world's foremost writers on orchids, has edited and written numerous publications on orchids and horticulture. He was editor of The New Royal Horticulture of Gardening, and was awarded the Garden Writers' Guild Special Award for a Work of Outstanding Excellence for his RHS Manual, Orchids. Griffiths is horticultural correspondent for The Times, London.

Orchids : The Fine Art of Cultivation

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Guinness (The Colourful Story Of A Black And White Brand)

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