Bulbs of North America  class h trilogy acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick

acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery

and ultimately a bizarre recluse whose final years and shocking death were cloaked in macabre mystery

Yet they were also fascinated by imperial intrigue

this lively

Bulbs of North America  class h trilogy acclaimed science writer Edward DolnickNorth America is home to approximately four dozen bulbous genera. Among these are some very popular rock garden plants, such as Calochortus, Erythronium, and Fritillaria, which have never had anything substantial written about them in book form. Others, including Calydorea, Hypoxis, and Muilla, are not as well known outside specialist collections. The characteristics that make bulbs so desirable in gardens include their great diversity of flowering