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Book cover: 'Garden Voices'

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April-May 2014

last issue: March 2014

The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.

The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.

Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au


BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Curating biocultural collections: a handbook
Jan Salick, Katie Konchar and Mark Nesbitt (eds.)
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in association with Missouri Botanical Garden, 2014
069.0687 CUR

Seeds: physiology of development, germination and dormancy, 3rd edn
J Derek Bewley .. et al.
New York : Springer, 2013
571.862 SEE

Desert animals and plants
Jane Pearson
Port Melbourne, Vic. : Echidna Books, 2006
For primary school students.
577.540994 PEA

Cytology and plectology of the Hymenomycetes, 2nd revised edn.
Heinz Clemencon
Stuttgart : J Cramer, 2012
579.59 CLE

Nature’s palette: the science of plant color
David Lee
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
580 LEE

The Families and genera of vascular plants. Volume XI. Flowering plants. Eudicots, Malpighiales
K. Kubitzki (ed.)
Heidelberg, Germany : Springer, 2014
Ref 580.12 FAM

Latin for gardeners: over 3,000 plant names explained and explored
Lorraine Harrison
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
580.14 HAR

Monkey puzzle man: Archibald Menzies, plant hunter
James McCarthy
Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, 2008
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
580.92 MEN

The Kew tropical plant families identification handbook
Timothy Gutteridge & Gemma Bramley (eds.)
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2014
581.70913 KEW

Little book of banksias
Canberra : National Library of Australia Publishing, [2013]
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
583.890994 LIT

Mosses of dry forests in south eastern Australia
Cassia Read, Bernard Slattery
Castlemaine, Vic. : Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests [Mount Alexander Region] inc., 2014
588.20994 REA

Philosophy in the garden: eleven great authors and the ideas they discovered in parks, yards and pots
Damon Young
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
635.01 YOU

Pests, diseases and beneficials: friends and foes of Australian gardens
F David Hockings
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2014
635.0490994 HOC

500 plants: great Australian favourites for your garden
Angus Stewart
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
635.95194 STE

Garden voices: Australian designers – their stories
Anne Latreille
Melbourne : Bloomings Books, 2013
20 landscape designers from Marion Blackwell to Edna Walling.
712.0994 LAT

Handbook of plant forms for botanical artists
Ernest E Clark & Margaret Stevens
London : Batsford, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
743.7 CLA

Collecting ladies: Ferdinand von Mueller and women collecting artists
Penny Olsen
Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2013
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
743.9340994 OLS

In harmony with nature
Daisy Wood
Geelong, Vic. :  Peter D Jackson Graphics, 1975
48 watercolour plates chiefly of Australian native flowers. Also includes 4 plates with fungi, 4 with exotic flowers and 4 landscapes. Introduction by JH Willis.
759.994 WOO

Photographing trees
Edward Parker
Kew : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2012
ANBG copy purchased with funds donated by Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, March 2014.
778.934 PAR

MAPS

Kanawinka geotrail: discover Australia’s most extensive volcanic province
[Vic.]: Kanawinka, [2011?]
Map and brief visitor guide to the Kanawinka Geopark, part of a larger volcanic area known as the Newer Volcanic Province of Southeastern Australia.
Map Box 551.20994 KAN

RARE BOOK COLLECTION

Wild flowers of South Australia
Fanny De Mole
Carlton, Vic. : Queensbury Hill Press, 1981
Facsimile edition. Originally published: London : Paul Gerard, 1861.
First book published on the South Australian flora with colour illustrations.
ANBG copy donated by Murray Fagg, June 2014.

Rare F 582.13099423 DEM

 


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