Publisher's Synopsis
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards but the vocabulary is 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. Although based upon Europe the series will be an extremely useful reference on plants in cultivation throughout the world. Families, genera and species are described, keys are provided and guidance given on the cultivation of each genus. Volume III is the third in a series of six; it contains accounts of the first 49 families of dicotyledons, including many well-known trees (Salicaceae, Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Ulmaceae etc.), two large families of popular succulents (Cactaceae and Aizoaceae) and the horticulturally important genus Berberis. Volumes I and II, which have already been published, contain the ferns and their allies, the conifers and the monocotyledons.
