THE GENUS HAWORTHIA (LILIACEAE) & THE NEW HAWORTHIA HANDBOOK

1.Charles, (L. Scott)
THE GENUS HAWORTHIA (LILIACEAE) - A taxonomic revision

xxix + 150 + (xl index) pages, frontispiece portrait of Adrian Haworth (1768-1833), map of Southern Africa on endpapers, coloured and black & white illustrations, distribution maps throughout. Overall a very good copy

'The genus Haworthia, of the family Liliaceae, has captured the imagination of botanists, horticulturists and collectors worldwide, and has become the favoured subject of many succulent plant collections. All the fascination of these delightful aloe-like succulents is in their varied growth forms. They are generally easy to propagate from leaves and many are very prolific, forming clumps of offsets which, in turn, can form their own clumps. Endemic to the southernmost parts of the African continent, the great majority of the species are found in the Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa, with only a few species occurring outside of that Province.

Haworthia has always been a problem genus and Charles Scott has devoted a lifetime to the unravelling of its taxonomic problems, which have daunted botanists over many years. This monograph will become the definitive work on this delightful subject.' - Editor's note.

2. Beyer (M.B.)
THE NEW HAWORTHIA HANDBOOK

Printed linen cardboard covers, plain endpapers, 124 pp complete (prelims, text, appendixes) With 20pp of colour plates, illustrating sixty species.

Foreword by H B Rycroft. This in itself was a revision of the author's original monograph published a year earlier and based on work by C G Smith and Dr M Courtenay-Latimer.