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Desert plants : a curator's introduction to the Huntington desert garden / Gary Lyons.

Title
Desert plants : a curator's introduction to the Huntington desert garden / Gary Lyons.
Author
Lyons, Gary.
Publication
San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, c2007.

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Description
127 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
Summary
"Curator and author Gary Lyons celebrates the C's 100-year-old collection of desert plants in this 128-page book filled with facts and photographs. In these pages you'll meet boojum trees from Baja California, creeping devils and old man cactus from Mexico, and a rare plant called welwitschia from Namibia, among the 3,000 species now growing in the twelve-acre garden."--book jacket.
Alternative Title
Curator's introduction to the Huntington's desert garden
Subject
  • Huntington Botanical Gardens
  • Desert plants > San Marino
  • Desert gardening > San Marino
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780873282314 (alk. paper)
  • 9780873282185 (cloth)
LCCN
^^2006101789
OCLC
77485908
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library