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标题：Firefly Books
期刊名称：The Bookwatch (Print)
印刷版ISSN：0896-4521
出版年度：2005
卷号：April 2005
出版社：Midwest Book Review

Firefly Books

Firefly Books

155 East 34th St. #5B, NY, NY 10016

1-800-387-5085 www.fireflybooks.com

Three fine new guides are recommended picks offering avid gardeners special advice. Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix's Best Rose Guide: A Comprehensive Selection (1552978443, $45.00) provides the latest in the Phillips and Rix series of horticultural guides; this giving rose gardeners a key to growing success for a notoriously finicky plant. Over 850 roses are covered, including the major species, the historical classes, and hybrids. Each receives full color embellishment and a history, along with mention of why the rose chosen is the best for health, beauty or scent. Denise Greig's Ornamental Foliage Plants (15540701711, $45.00) provides a guide to over 1,500 plants recommendable for their exceptional foliage, providing small color photos along with summaries of their climate zones, cultivation, and use. Descriptions of the foliage are detailed enough to allow any gardener to understand the plant's usefulness under different conditions.