The Pictorial Guide to Seeds of the World: An Introduction Into the Collection, Cleaning, and Storage of Seeds Paperback – May 11, 2011

This book gives very useful practical advice on collecting and cleaning of seeds. Lovely detailed photographs through out the book.Easy to understand instructions.Amazing amount of information. Great book for the home gardeners library.It is an excellent reference book.Would make a great christmas present. The Pictorial Guide to Seeds of the World: An Introduction into the Collection, Cleaning, and Storage of Seeds

My first impression of the book was that it looked inviting. The cover is attractive and appropriately represents the content. The content is clearly presented, it is uncluttered and the print large enough to read comfortably but not so large that it has the look of a school reading book.The book doesn't claim to cover every seed in the world - this would be impossible - but it does cover a very significant number, most of which are illustrated by scaled photographs. I do like to have plenty of photos in this type of book.It's reader-friendly, it doesn't complicate matters by being too scientific but neither is it too basic.This isn't a book to read from cover to cover - after reading sections relating to collection, cleaning and storage of seeds, the main sections which describes each seed is more for dipping in and out of for reference purposes.Although on the face of it this is quite expensive for a paperback, I can understand why. It must have taken ages to take all the photographs and add a scale.It may even encourage me to be adventurous and have a go at growing new plants from collected seed.