Essential propagation reference
A detailed and thorough guide to plant propagation, suitable for the impassioned amateur. Chapters review techniques of seed starting, layering, propagation from leaf, hardwood and softwood cuttings, etc, in detail. Comprehensive and well organized listings of species, with brief discussion of suitable methods of propagation for each.. No index of common names, some bias towards British ranges of hardiness, but overall one of the most useful books you could own if you long to increase your plant collection. This book took me from being a constant haunter of nurseries to someone who gives away hundreds of plants a year, actually has too many of quite a few lovely things (like Clivias), and only haunts the nurseries intermittently - - too busy taking care of all the baby plants to go every weekend!
