Book Reviews: Plant Propagation

One of the most complete and readable reference texts to come across my desk for many a month, is this work by two pomology professors at the University of California (Davis). The book deals with both the theoretical reason and the practical methods used to produce plants, in general keeping the theory in one chapter and the method in the next. This permits the reader to learn why something should be done, then to learn how it is done. The book has four main parts, dealing with general aspects of propagation, sexual propagation, asexual propagation and propagation methods for selected specific plants.