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[Native Trees, Shrubs, & Vines is] an important book for professional nurserymen. Cullina also writes so well that this is the rare encyclopedia that can be read for pleasure. This handsome well-designed volume is an excellent value. -- Review This is one of those exceedingly rare reference books that you'll find yourself consulting simply for the pleasure of its prose. Hard to believe an authoritative reference to America's trees and shrubs didn't already exist, but now that it docs, it's indispensable.' MICHAEL POLLAN, author of Botany of Desire For all of us who love the natural world, William Cullina's book is both a delightful read and an essential reference. If you want to attract birds and butterflies to your garden, this is an invaluable guide to the specific plants that will support them. KENN KAUFMAN, author of Lives of North American Birds William Cullina is an expert horticulturist. His new reference book. Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, along with its predecessor, Growing and Propagating Wildflowers, belongs in the library of every American gardener.' KEN DRUSE, author of Making More Plants: The Science. Art, and Joy of Propagation William Cullina's wildflower book had only one fault, which was that it excluded woody plants. Now this wonderful new book, written with the same grace, clarity, erudition, and deep hands-on experience, will quickly join Wildflowers as the essential reference for anyone interested in our native flora. WAYNE WINTERROWD, coauthor of Year at North Hill Cullina ... writes so well that this is the rare encyclopedia that can be read for pleasure. This handsome well-designed volume is an excellent value. -Boston Globe

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William Cullina, the nursery manager and propagator at the Garden in the Woods, the showplace headquarters of the New England Wild Flower Society, has been passionate about plants since he was a child. He has traveled extensively in the United States and Canada to study and photograph the plants in this book, most of which he as grown himself. His wide interests include collecting orchids (one thousand miniature epiphytes), making wheel-thrown stoneware, and building furniture from wood he has cut and turned into lumber himself.

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