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| AUTHOR: | Andrea Rausch, Annette Timmermann |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | DUMONT monte |
| ISBN: | 3832070923 |
| TYPE: | Container gardening, Ornamental Plants, Gardening / Horticulture, Gardening, Gardening/Plants, Container, House Plants & Indoor |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 801832709235 |
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Customer Reviews of 500 Essential Container Plants: Window Boxes, Balconies and Patios
One of the strangest publishing mistakes I've seen I was tempted by this book on the remainder table at my local Borders store. Since this is a German book (translated into English), I thought I'd better check the entries of plants I was familiar with to get some sense of the book's accuracy and usefulness to American gardeners. My initial impression was that it was okay, but not entirely accurate, based on personal experience and other reading, but the price was low and the pictures were pretty. Then I came across the "caterpillar" section ("caterpillar" substituted for Latin names; see previous review). As a former editor, I'm aware of how easy it is to publish errors, but this one takes the cake. The remainder price may be low enough that some people will put up with the infestation of "caterpillars," but I couldn't justify buying something with that extensive a problem, no matter how pretty the pictures are. Frankly, I think the remaindered books should be marked with a warning sticker--I'd have been pretty unhappy had I bought this book and then discovered the mistake once I got home.
Publishing error not in all copies
My copy of this book does not have the publishing error mentioned in the previous review - and I found this book to be quite useful in deciding what to plant for my patio garden.
Publishing error
I checked out a copy of "500 Essential Container Plants",
from my library. Once I looked at it at home I found that for the entire section "Plant for a single season" - about 100 pages - in the body of the text the Latin name of the plants is replaced by the word "caterpillars." My guess is that the publisher replaced the Latin names with caterpillars so the text would fit through his spell checker then forgot to go back and put back the Latin. I would guess that it is the same with all copies.