Captain Bartle Grant’s handbook describes the orchids recorded in Burma and the Andaman Islands; this is the 1966 Rangoon reissue. Frederico Carlos Hoehne’s 1946 survey illustrates the fruits native to Brazil, and Harold Edmund Hackett’s 1969 Duke dissertation follows the marine algae of the Maldive Islands. Then the troubles: the Horticultural Society of New York met on why flowers and fruit fail, Ephraim Porter Felt and W. Howard Rankin’s 1932 guide covers the pests and diseases of ornamental trees and shrubs, and two studies take on fungi: Daniel McAlpine on the smuts that attack crops, and W. Andrew Archer on telling cultured fungi apart.
Captain Bartle Grant’s handbook, first printed in 1895, reissued in 1966.
Frederico Carlos Hoehne’s 1946 survey, with detailed scientific drawings.
Harold Edmund Hackett’s 1969 Duke dissertation, in a 1971 facsimile.
Papers from the Horticultural Society of New York’s international meeting, printed in 1927.
Felt and Rankin’s illustrated 1932 guide to their pests and diseases.
Daniel McAlpine’s study of the smuts: their structure, life history, treatment and classification.
W. Andrew Archer’s 1926 study of cultured fungi, as an aid to classification.
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