The Hawaii Garden: Tropical Exotics. Photographs by Rick Golt.

Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, (1977). First Edition. Quarto, hardcover (green cloth & white leatherette), gilt letters, xv + 267 pp. Former-owner’s published review pasted to rear endapaper, former-owner stamps, light foxing; in a Very Good dust jacket with foxing & edgewear. From dust jacket: Hawaii is the home of one of the world’s greatest collections of tropical and subtropical plants. The Islands’ benign and varied microclimates have accepted plants from many different places, ranging from humid jungle rain forests to arid deserts, and from seacoasts sprayed with salt to mountainsides of almost Andean heights. With the enormous variety of plants that have made Hawaii one great botanical garden, comes also a great curiosity and search for knowledge about them...This volume features more than 100 striking plants, grown for their colorful or exotic flowers and foilage. All of these exotics have proved successful for the amateur gardener in Hawaii, including several unusual new varieties and cultivars, only recently made available commercially...Each plant discussed is illustrated with a full-page color photograph by Rick Golt. The accompanyin g text gives a complete description of the plant, the origin of its name, its practical uses, required growing conditions, horticulturaists practical uses, required growing conditions, horticultural and landscape uses, propagation, insect and disease control, pruining, fertilizing, and significant disadvantages. (Inventory #: bas48)