The European garden flora - J. Cullen

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. Although designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect, as well as to the professional botanist. Volume IVcontains accounts of thirty-two families of dicotyledons, including large, horticulturally important genera such as Rosa, Saxifraga, Sedum and Prunus. Comprehensive keys are provided at the level of family, genus and species, and line diagrams are included to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa. Reference is made to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts, and a small amount of guidance on cultivation is provided for each genus.