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INNUMERABLE books on gardening have so ingrained it in our minds that a garden is a place in which plants from warmer climes are made to flourish in spite of our English winter, that the converse comes rather as a surprise. In this volume, the members of an English horticultural society describe their successes and failures in growing English garden-plants, with others, so near the equator as Kenya. It is a practical handbook that will be useful to gardeners in sub-tropical countries all the world round. The scientific aspects of the local horticulture are discussed in introductory chapters on climatology, soils, economic entomology and mycology, treated in a popular way, but containing a valuable body of knowledge for so young a colony as Kenya.
Gardening in East Africa
A Practical Handbook by Members of the Kenya Horticultural Society and of the Kenya and Uganda Civil Services. Edited By A. J. Jex-Blake. Pp. xv + 330 + 6 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 321 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136321b0
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