Allegheny Chapter

North American Rock Garden Society

The Allegheny Chapter is located in

Western Pennsylvania

 

Allegheny Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society

The Ruth Young Library

2006 Book List

 

NOTE - Please contact Patty McGuire at cmpmam@juno.com or

412-366-8364 with your specific book request prior to the meeting you will be attending.  Please make the job of librarian easier by returning borrowed books promptly.  Thank you.

           

A

A Handbook of Rock Gardening / Alpine Garden Society

A Rock Garden Handbook for Beginners / NARGS

Adrian Bloom’s Guide to Alpines / Adrian Bloom

All About Lawns / Ortho Books

All About Rock Gardens and Plants / Walter A. Kolaga

Alliums, The Ornamental Onions / Dilys Davies

Alpen-Blumen / Herbert Reisigl (In German but pictures are beautiful)

Alpine Garden Plants / Will Ingwersen

Alpine House, The / Robert Rolfe

Alpine Plants of China, The / Zhang Jingwei

Alpine Plants of North America, An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska / Graham Nicholls

Alpines / Will Ingwersen

Alpines for Your Garden / Alan Bloom

Alpines in Colour and Cultivation / T.C. Mansfield

Alpines in Pots / R. C. Elliott

Alpines in Sinks and Troughs / Joe Elliott

Alpines in the Open Garden / Jack Elliott

Alpines - Step by Step to Growing Success / Mary A. Robinson

Alpines the Easy Way / Joe Elliott

An Illustrated Guide to Alpines / Michael Upward

Arranging Cut Flowers / Ortho Books

Androsaces / G. F. Smith and D. B. Lowe

Auricula, The / Rowland H. Biffen, F.R.S.

Award Winning Small Space Gardens / Ortho Books Editorial Staff

B

Beautiful Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants / John Warwick

Bonsai / Sunset Books

Book of Rock and Water Gardens, The / Charles Thonger

Border in Colour, The / T. C. Mansfield

Bulbs for the Rock Garden / Jack Elliott

Bulbs of North America / The North American Rock Garden Society

C

Cacti and Succulent from Mother Nature / Future Crafts Today

Campanulas and Bellflowers in Cultivation / H. Clifford Crook

Collector's Alpines - Their Cultivation in Frames and Alpine Houses / Royton E Heath

Collins Guide to Alpines and Rock Garden Plants / Anna N. Griffith

Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden / Gertrude Jekyll

Complete Book of Bulbs, The / Brian Matthew and Philip Swindells

Complete Book of the Garden / Reader's Digest

Conifers / D. M. van Gelderen and J. R. P. van Hoey Smith

Controlling Lawn and Garden Insects / Ortho Books

Cottage Garden and the Old-Fashioned Flowers, The / Roy Genders

Colour Dictionary of Garden Plants with House and Greenhouse Plants, The / Roy Hay and Patrick M. Synge

Cushion Plants for the Rock Garden / Duncan Lowe

Cuttings from a Rock Garden / H. Lincoln Foster and Laura Foster

Cyclamen / Christopher Grey-Wilson

D

Dionysias - Supplement and Key (1976) / C. Grey-Wilson

Dwarf Conifers / Plants and Gardens Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record

E

Easy Maintenance Gardening / Ortho Books

Englishman's Garden, The / Alvilde Lees-Milne and Rosemary Verey

Ericaceous and Peat Loving Plants / S. E. Lilley

F

Fences and Gates / Editors of Sunset Books

Flowers of Britain and Europe, The / Oleg Polunin

Fritillaries - The Gardener's Guide to Growing / Kevin Pratt and Michael Jefferson-Brown

G

Garden Hobbies / Estelle H. Ries

Garden Ornaments and Statuary / Peter McHoy

Garden Pools and Fountains / The Editorial Staff of Ortho Books

Gardener's Year, The / Karel Capek (2 books)

Gardening with Alpines / Stanley B. Whitehead, D.S.C.

Gardening with Native Wild Flowers / Samuel B. Jones, Jr. and Leonard E. Foote

Gardening with Wild Flowers / Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record-Plants and Gardens

Gentians / Mary Bartlett

Genus Epimedium and Other Herbaceous Berberidaceae Including the Genus Podophyllum, The / William T. Stearn

Genus Gentiana, The / Josef J. Halda

Genus Phalaenopsis, The / Herman R. Sweet, PhD.

Guide to Wisley Garden / The Royal Horticultural Society

H

Handbook on Gardening in the Shade / Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Plants and Gardens

Handbook on Miniature Gardens / Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Plants and Gardens

Handbook on Rock Gardening / Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Plants and Gardens

Handbook on Rock Gardening, Getting Started, Keeping Going, and Advanced Techniques / Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record-Plants and Gardens (2 books)

Hardy Geraniums / Peter F. Yeo

Himalayan Garden, Growing Plants from the Roof of the World, The / Jim Jermyn

How to Plan, Establish, and Maintain Rock Gardens / George Schenk

I

Improving Your Garden Soil / The Editorial Staff of Ortho Books

L

Lewisias / Roy Elliott

Little Garden, The / George M. Taylor

Lychnis and Silene in the Garden / James L. Jones

M

Manual of Alpine Plants / Will Ingwersen

Miniature Alpine Gardening / Lawrence D. Hills

Miniature Gardens / Carl Joachim

Mosses and Other Bryophytes / Bill and Nancy Malcolm

N

New Seed Starters Handbook, The / Nancy Bubel

O

Orchids / Sunset Books

Ornamental Conifers / Charles R. Harrison

Ornamental Grasses for the Home and Garden / Mary Hockenberry Meyer and Robert G. Mower

P

Patio Roofs and Gazebos / Sunset Books

Peat Garden, The / Alfred Evans, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

Pelagoniums / David Clark

Picture Book of Perennials, The / Arno and Irene Nehrling

Plant Propagation in Pictures / Montague Free

Plants of Pennsylvania, The / Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block

Pleasure of Gardening - Rock and Alpine Gardens, A Complete Practical Guide, The / Mary Moody

Polyanthus for Garden, Exhibit and Market, The / Roy Genders

Primroses and Spring / Doretta Klaber

Primula / John Richards

Propagation of Alpine Plants / J. K. Hulme

Propagation of Alpine Plants and Dwarf Bulbs, The / Brian Halliwell

R

Reflections of the Spirit-Japanese Gardens in America / Maggie Oster

Rock and Alpine Gardens / Thomas H. Everett

Rock Garden, The / E. H. Jenkins

Rock Garden and Alpine Plants / Raymond Foster

Rock Garden Design and Construction / NARGS

Rock Garden Plants of North America / The NARGS-Anthology from their Bulletins

Rock Gardener's Handbook, The / Alan Titchmarsh

Rock Gardening / Charles O. Cresson (American Gardening Series-Burpee)

Rock Gardening / Roy Genders

Rock Gardening - A Guide to Growing Alpines and Other Wildflowers in the American Garden / H. Lincoln Foster

Rock Gardens / E. B. Anderson

Rock Gardens / Douglas Bartrum

Rock Gardens / William Schacht (2 books)

Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants / David Joyce

Rock Gardens Through the Year / Karl Foerster

Rocky Mountain Alpines / The American Rock Garden Society and Its Rocky Mountain Chapter Royal Botanic Garden / Edinburgh

S

Saxifrages / Winton Harding

Saxifrages and Related Genera / Fritz Kohlein Seed Germination

Seed Germination Theory and Practice / Norman C. Deno

Seeds of Wildland Plants, Collecting, Processing and Germinating / James A. and Cheryl G. Young

Serious Gardener-Rock Gardeners, The / The New York Botanic Garden

T

Theory and Practice / Norman C. Deno

Tips for the Lazy Gardener / Linda Tilgner

Trilliums / Frederick W., Jr. and Roberta B. Case

V

Various Early Perennials / Compiled by Madeline Modic

Various Foliage Plants / Compiled by Madeline Modic

W

Wall and Water Gardens / Gertrude Jekyll

Water Gardening / Ken Dluse

Wild Flowering Barrens / Al List, Jr. and Bill Cahill

Wildflowers Across America / Lady Bird Johnson and Carlton B. Lees

Wild Flowers of the United States / Harold William Rickett (3 Volumes)

Wisley Book of Gardening-A Guide for Enthusiasts, The / The Royal Horticultural Society

World of Cactus and Succulents / Ortho Books

Videos

Spring Wild Flowers of the Eastern Forests

Spring Wildflowers of the Mid-Atlantic Region (2 copies)

Miscellaneous

Chapter Newsletters dating back to 1975

In addition to our own Newsletters, we have other Chapter's Newsletters dating from 1986-1990 and 1992-1998.

Bulletins of the American Rock Garden Society (National) dating from 1955 - 1959 and 1962-1993.

Quarterly Bulletins of the American Rock Garden Society (National) dating from             1977-1985.