Principles of Horticulture: Second Edition

New edition of a text for students of horticulture and professional and amateur gardeners. Coverage includes plant growth and the factors that influence plant development, pests and diseases and the ways in which horticulturists control them, and the root environment soil and other growing media, soil water, plant nutrition, and the role of organic matter. A new first chapter looks at the impact on the industry of the conservation movement and organic growing. The orientation is British, but little is region-specific. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.