Rock Garden Plants of the Southern Alps. Each item is presented on

Each item is presented on its own page with an informative descriptive text

Ashburton District Council

Also includes a photo essay of other natural history specimens in the modern museum

including the early days

A large heavy book

Rock Garden Plants of the Southern Alps. Each item is presented onW. R. Philipson and D. Hearn. The first ever book devoted exclusively to New Zealand alpine plants and to their cultivation. Here are described the mountain plants of the Southern Alps which have value in the rock garden. Nearly all the photographs are of plants growing in the wild, 100 are illustrated, eleven in colour. A New Zealand botanical classic. First edition. Caxton Press, Christchurch, 1962. Hardback with dust jacket. 167 pages. SECONDHAND.