American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants

...So I get home, make my dinner, and camp out in my favorite easy chair for my nightly dinner read. Unfortunately, this book was soooo heavy, I couldn't balance it very well. It was uncomfortable on my lap (and the print was too small to read from there), but holding it up was a chore. I actually sprained my wrist trying to find a comfortable way to read this book!

What I did manage to see during that first viewing was impressive....It's still a bit like not knowing how to spell a word, but trying to look it up in the dictionary. Unless you have some idea of what you might be dealing with, you may not find the right article.

On the plus side, there are many, many pictures, not just one for a whole family of plants. Few varieties don't have a decent illistration. And the descriptions are very concice. If you're not sure what a term means, it's easy to find a definition.

Now if I could just find a way to read this book without hurting my wrist! They should have really broken this encyclopedia into multiple volumes -- volumes that would be easier to hold while reading...All in all, ...I'd still have to say this is a great value, and an essential book for anybody interested in more than marigolds and roses...