Ornamental Palm Horticulture
by TIMOTHY K. BROSCHAT
from University Press of Florida
Betrock's Landscape Palms
by Alan W. Meerow
from Betrock Information Systems
The newest palm reference guide from Betrock Information Systems. It displays scientific information and color photographs for 126 landscape palms including: USDA hardiness zones, growth rate, palm fertilization, pest problems, transplanting and care, disease and disorder problems, salt, drought tolerances, light, nutrition and soil requirements, popular uses, propagation, common cultivars, human and environmental hazards (including allergenic properties and irritating fruits).
Betrock's Cold Hardy Palms
by Alan W. Meerow
from Betrock Information System
Comprehensive profiles for 82 palm species capable of growing in climates colder than USDA Hardiness Zone 10. 168 color pages 286 color photographs A list of minimum average temperature exposures for an additional 139 palms. Features include cold hardy palms that are drought tolerant, highly salt tolerant, shade tolerant, hazardous to humans (including irritating fruits) and much more. This book covers most of the U.S. and Europe.
Secret of the Orient, Dwarf Rhapis Excelsa: A "Lady Palm" Reference, Including Standard Rhapis Excelsa and Other Rhapis Palms
by Lynn McKamey
from Rhapis Gardens
The Sabal Palm: A Native Monarch
by Barbara Oehlbeck
from Gulfshore Communications
This exhaustively researched yet simply written book includes the sabal palm's life history, its relationship with man and place within natural systems. With an introduction by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and a chapter by James Billie, Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as well as contributions by other prominent botanists and conservationists, the book also includes delightful miscellany such as first-person accounts of 18th-century botanists of the tree, how hummingbirds construct nests using the trees, instructions on how to grow the trees from seed and transplant them and how to build a flutter mill of the fronds.
Utilisation of oil palm tree and other palms, 1994: Proceedings of the third national seminar
A Taxonomic Treatment of the Palm Subtribe _Attaleinae_ (Tribe _Cocoeae_) (Illinois Biological Monographs)
by Sidney F. Glassman
from University of Illinois Press
The ABCs of Indoor Palm Trees
by Joelle Steele
from Park Place Pubns
This instructional booklet was written specifically for interior landscape contractors and their maintenance technicians. However, indoor gardeners will also find it helpful and easy to understand. It is one of many such business and technical books and booklets written for interior landscapers by Joelle Steele, a well-known writer, lecturer, and business/technical consultant to the horticultural trades.
Palm Tissue Culture (FAO plant production and protection paper)
REV OF PALM GENUS SYRAGUS (Illinois Biological Monographs)
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