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Plantsman's Paradise, A: Roy Lancaster Travels in China, Hardback Book

Plantsman's Paradise, A: Roy Lancaster Travels in China Hardback

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This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China.

First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West.

Roy Lancaster describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America.

Hundreds of Lancaster's own attractive and colourful photographs are reproduced, interspersed with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes from his travels.

This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50% more species on one mountain in China than there are in the whole of the British Isles.

Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to all gardeners, be they from Norway or Spain, the United

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