Dierama.The Hairbells of Africa

Hard Cover. Illustrated by Auriol Batten. Illustrated endpapers. 152 pp text with plates. Lamination of the dust-jacket has one or two creases - a common problem with this book. Presents a long-awaited,compehensive account of this attractive African genus of plants belonging to the Iris family.Although much prized in cultivation,they are not as well known as,for example,gladiolus or freesia,but deserve to be more widely grown for the beauty of their graceful sprays of pendulous flowers on thin,arching stalks which has given rise to their common name".