Re: CULT: New Iris Book

Hey thanks for all the kind word about our books over the last week.
Our catalog is online.

http://www.timber-press.com/

Please give it a click.

Best regards,


Ann Anderson
Timber Press, Inc.                  http://www.timber-press.com
133 S.W. 2nd Ave. #450               800.327.5680/503.227.2878
Portland, OR 97204 USA                   fax 503.227.3070
USDA Zone 8, Sunset Zone 6



Bill Shear wrote:
> 
> Readers of the Karen Glasgow book should be aware that it is definitely
> aimed at the New Zealand gardener and that New Zealand, blessed in so many
> other ways, evidently has no iris pests at all!  But the pictures are very
> nice, making up about half of the 100-page book.  Refreshingly,many of them
> are of irises in a garden context, not just "mug shots."
> 
> Don't know about Geoff Stebbings, but the other books in the series (I
> bought two of them while in England last year) are very nice handbooks and
> highly suitable for beginners.  But you must remember that they are written
> for a British audience and do not address American conditions.
> 
> This is a constant caution with Timber Press and some other
> publishers/distributers of garden books.  They can much more cheaply and
> easily reprint or distribute British and European books that have already
> been written and published at home, rather than pay American authors to
> write books that would be specifically aimed at American gardeners.  And
> yet, to judge from the book tables at Barnes and Noble, Brentano's, and
> Books-a-Million, there is an almost endless market for books on any and all
> aspects of gardening.  For instance, Timber Press also lists a new book by
> George Schenck on 'Moss Gardening.'  This sounds like an esoteric subject,
> and probably it is, but any book by George Schenck is worth buying and
> reading.  His book on shade gardening is my bible!
> 
> Bill Shear
> Department of Biology
> Hampden-Sydney College
> Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
> (804)223-6172
> FAX (804)223-6374
> email<bills@tiger.hsc.edu>
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