Books in print

Books in print

Dr E. Charles Nelson

not available from the author

	Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry. A history of ‘the most interesting nursery probably in the World’. Available direct from the Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee, PO Box 252, Belfast BT9 6GY, Northern Ireland. £15, post & packing extra. ISBN 0-9522855-6-8. (Includes a watercolour illustration by Wendy Walsh).
	A heritage of beauty. The garden plants of Ireland. An illustrated encyclopaedia. Available direct from the Irish Garden Plant Society. €30, post & packing extra. ISBN 0-9515890-1-6. (Includes illustrations by Wendy Walsh (watercolour & pen‑and‑ink)).
	Sea beans and nickar nuts. A handbook of exotic seeds and fruits stranded on beaches in north-western Europe. Available from BSBI Publications, c/o Summerfield Books, Main Street, Brough, Cumbria, CA17 4AX [e-mail bsbipubs@beeb.net]. £12.50, post & packing extra, or from bookshops. ISBN 0-901158-29-1. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh (in Chinese ink), Alma Hathway and Bernie Shine (in pen‑and‑ink)).
	Wild plants of The Burren and The Aran Islands. A simple souvenir guide to the flowers and ferns. The Collins Press, Wilton, Cork [e-mail enquiries@collinspress.ie]. €14.99 ISBN 978-1-905172-67-2. A new edition, enlarged and revised, is now available (April 2008).
	The Burren: a companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness. Available direct from The Conservancy of The Burren, c/o An Bothain, Pier Road, Ballyvaghan, County Clare, Ireland. [orders may be sent by fax + 353 65 7077127] €35, post & packing extra. ISBN 1-898706-10-7. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh (in watercolour, Chinese ink, & pen‑and‑ink)).
	*The cause of the calamity. Potato blight in Ireland, 1845-1847, and the role of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.* Available from The National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 [tel. + 353 1 8374388; fax. + 353 1 8360080], or through The Stationery Office, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
	Wild plants of Connemara and West Mayo. A souvenir and simple pocket guide to the flowers and ferns illustrated with colour photographs. Available direct from Strawberry Tree, 18 Woodbine Avenue, Dublin 5 [fax. + 353 1 8472448; e-mail tonymoreau@eircom.net]. €16 ISBN 1-904004-00-8.
	Wild plants of south-western Ireland Kerry West Cork and Limerick. A souvenir and simple pocket guide to the flowers and ferns illustrated with colour photographs. Available direct from Strawberry Tree, 18 Woodbine Avenue, Dublin 5 [fax. + 353 1 8472448; e-mail tonymoreau@eircom.net]. €16 ISBN 1-904004-01-6.
	The virtues of herbs of Master Jon Gardener. Foreword by Professor Arne Zettersten; illustrations by Deborah Lambkin, Daphne Levinge, Frances Poskitt, Raymond Piper, Susan Sex and Wendy Walsh). Available direct from Strawberry Tree, 18 Woodbine Avenue, Dublin 5 [fax. + 353 1 8472448; e-mail tonymoreau@eircom.net]. €280 (limited edition of 130 copies). ISBN 1-904004-02-4.
	E. C. Nelson & B. Sayers. Orchids at Glasnevin: an illustrated history of orchids in Ireland's National Botanic Gardens. Foreword by P. J. B. Woods; illustrations by Lydia Shackleton, Raymond Piper, Susan Sex and Wendy Walsh. Available direct from Strawberry Tree, 18 Woodbine Avenue, Dublin 5 [fax. + 353 1 8472448; e-mail tonymoreau@eircom.net]. €110. ISBN 1-904004-03-2.
	William Robinson. The wild garden. A new illustrated edition annotated by E. Charles Nelson. Dedicated in memoriam Graham Stuart Thomas (1909-2003). Illustrated with colour photographs: a modern introduction provides biographical information on Robinson. Available direct from Strawberry Tree, 18 Woodbine Avenue, Dublin 5 [fax. + 353 1 8472448; e-mail tonymoreau@eircom.net]. ISBN 1-904004-05-9.