Campanulas: A Gardener's Guide
Campanulas: A Gardener's Guide
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风铃：园丁指南
DOI：
10.5860/choice.36-4484
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发表时间：
1989
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通讯作者：
Peter Lewis
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作者：
Peter Lewis
去年夏天，在爱丁堡的一个研讨会上听了其中一位作者的演讲后，我热切地期待着这本关于风铃的书。我相信我对风铃很熟悉，但这个新的修订版的报道范围仍然给我留下了深刻的印象。作者们用引人注目的照片和对风铃属140多个物种和许多品种的描述抓住了我的注意力。导言让读者对这本书的范围有了很好的了解，并解释了为什么作者选择这样处理。他们恰如其分地解释说，由于后勤和时间的原因，身份识别密钥没有包括在内。对于园丁来说，这些照片显然更有帮助，特别是对各种品种。简短的历史由于包括了与风铃历史密切相关的各种历史人物的照片而变得更加有趣，但让读者对早期植物学中对风铃的引用感到有点困惑。事实证明，第二次阅读确实消除了一些困惑。遗憾的是，简史中所包含的一些信息是完全无关的，在一个案例中似乎是事后才想到的，这降低了文本的可读性，没有增加真正有意义的信息。另一方面，关于分类和一般特征的章节处理得很好。我发现特别有趣的是，风铃的“大小和轮廓”根据它们生长的地点和方式有很大的不同(钥匙不可靠的另一个原因)。每个物种的描述和特定的文化信息都是按字母顺序排列的，以便于访问。总体而言，人们可以很容易地获得对现有物种和品种的多样性及其一般培养的相当大的了解。作者介绍了风铃属植物的种类和栽培品种，并提供了大量关于风铃属植物的栽培和繁殖的信息。然而，我认为园丁，特别是那些没有种植风铃但愿意种植的人，将从一些精选物种和品种的推荐名单中受益。虽然这本书中有很多推荐，但一些简单的清单会对许多读者很有帮助，比如一份久经考验的风铃草清单或一份“伟大旅行者”的清单。同样令人感兴趣的是风铃的清单，这些风铃可以很好地生长在一起，用作边界花园、岩石花园或高山花园。列出几种植物的清单，当它们生长在一起时，会有一个很好的开花序列，这可能会有帮助。即使没有建议的补充，我发现风铃：园丁指南是一个很好的资源和指南，对于任何喜欢园艺的人来说，或者希望冒险进入成长中的风铃。对于商业种植者，有一份种子来源清单和相当多的信息，与将新的风铃纳入他们的多年生植物清单有关。当然，我发现了几株风铃，我期待着将它们添加到我的花园中。
Having heard one of the authors speak at a symposium in Edinburgh last summer, I was eagerly anticipating this book on campanulas. I believe that I am familiar with campanulas, still I was impressed with the breadth of coverage in this new, revised edition. The authors were able to grasp my attention with striking photographs and descriptions of more than 140 species and many cultivars of Campanula. The introduction gave the reader a good understanding of the scope of the book and explained why the authors chose to handle the treatment as they did. They aptly explained that identification keys have not been included due to logistics and time. For the gardeners the photographs are eminently more helpful, especially for the various cultivars. The brief history was made more interesting by the inclusion of photographs of various historical persons closely linked with the history of campanulas, but left the reader somewhat confused over the early botanical references to campanulas. A second reading did prove to eliminate some of the confusion. Unfortunately some of the information included in the brief history was quite extraneous and in one case appeared to be a stray afterthought, which detracted from the readability of the text and added no real significant information. On the other hand, the chapter on classification and general characteristics was nicely handled. I found particularly interesting that campanulas vary considerably in “size and outline” depending on where and how they are grown (another reason why keys are not reliable). The species descriptions and specific cultural information of each is presented alphabetically for ease of access. Overall, one could easily gain considerable understanding about the variety of species and cultivars available and their general culture. The authors present an excellent account of the species and cultivars of Campanula and give considerable information on the cultivation and propagation of the plants. However, I would think that gardeners, especially those who have not grown campanulas but would like to, would benefit from some recommendation lists of select species and cultivars. While many recommendations are found throughout the book, some simple lists such as a list of tried and true campanulas or a list of the “great travelers” would be quite helpful to many readers. Also of interest would be lists of campanulas that would grow well together for a border, rock garden, or alpine garden. A list of several plants that, when grown together would give a nice sequence of bloom, could be helpful. Even without the suggested additions, I found Campanulas: A Gardeners Guide to be an excellent source and guide book for anyone who enjoys gardening with or wishes to adventure into growing campanulas. For the commercial grower, there is a list of seed sources and considerable information pertinent to inclusion of new campanulas to their inventory of perennial plants. Of course, I have discovered several campanulas that I look forward to adding to my garden.