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Recognizing excellence with
the CBHL Annual Literature Award

Created in 2000, the CBHL Annual Literature Award is given by CBHL to both the author and publisher of a work that makes a significant contribution to the literature of botany or horticulture.

The award is presented at CBHL's Annual Meeting.
Its purpose is to:

Recognize a work that makes a significant contribution to the literature of botany or horticulture;

Increase the visibility of CBHL;

Encourage participation by the CBHL community in recognizing significant contributions to the literature of the field.

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Winners of the CBHL Annual Literature Award


2008

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns, Sue Olsen

Order out of Chaos

Encyclopedia of Garden Ferns
by Sue Olsen,
(Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2007)
144 pages; ISBN 9780881928198; hardcover;
8.5 x 11 inches; 700 color photos, 4 b/w photos, 2 line drawings ($59.95 US)

Order out of Chaos: Linnean Plant Names and Their Types
by Charlie Jarvis,
(Linnean Society of London, in association with the History Museum, London, 2007),
1016 pages; ISBN 9780950620770; hardcover; 28.2 x 23.4 x 5.6 cm; col. & b&W ill. (£80.00)

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2007

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Defiant Gardens, Kenneth Helphand

A Tropical Garden Flora

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime

by Kenneth Helphand,
(Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006),
320 pages; ISBN 1-59534-021-1; hardcover; 7 x 10 inches; 95 B&W photos ($34.95 US)

A Tropical Garden Flora:
Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and Other Tropical Places

by George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst,
(Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, HI, 2005)
936 pages; ISBN 1-58178-039-7; hardcover; 12.3 x 9.4 x 2.2 inches; line drawings ($59.95 US)

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2006

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Naming of names, Anna Pavord

Legumes of the World

The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
by Anna Pavord,
(Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2005),
472 pages; ISBN 9780747579526; hardcover; 26 cm.; color illustrations.

Legumes of the World
ed. by Gwilym Lewis Lewis et al.,
(Kew Publishing, Richmond, UK, 2005)
xiv, 577 pages; ISBN 1900347806; hardcover; 30 cm.; color photographs and line drawings. (£55 ; $100.65 US)

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2005

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Native Trees for North American Landscapes

Ethnoflora of the Soqotra Archipelago

Native Trees for North American Landscapes
by Guy Sternberg and Jim Wilson,
(Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2004),
552 p., ISBN 088192607, $59.95 (hardcover)

Ethnoflora of the Soqotra Archipelago
by Anthony G. Miller and Miranda Morris ,
(Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh , Edinburgh, UK, 2004)
776 p., ISBN 1 87229 159 ; £45 (trade 7 libraries; hardcover)

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2004

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South

Slipper Orchids of Vietnam

Gardens and Historic Plants of the Antebellum South
by James R. Cothran,
(University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC , 2003),
344 p., ISBN 1-57003-501-6, $49.95 (cloth)

Slipper Orchids of Vietnam
by Leonid Averyanov, Phillip Cribb, Phan Ke Loc, and Nguyen Tien Hiep; ill. by Carol Woodin,
(Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2003)(Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Monograph)
(Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew, UK, 2003)
327 p., ISBN 0-88192-592-6 (Timber Press), ISBN 1-84246-047-1 (RBG, Kew); $49.95 (cloth; Timber Press); £37.50 (cloth; RBG, Kew)

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2003

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

The Greater Perfection

The Cactus Family

The Greater Perfection
by Francis Cabot,
(W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, 2001),
328 p., ISBN 0-393-04189-1, $75.00 (cloth)

The Cactus Family
by Edward F. Anderson,
(Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2001)
776 p., ISBN 0-88192-498-9, $99.95 (cloth)

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2002

Winner
General Interest category
Winner
Technical category

Bamboo for Gardens

Lichens of North America

Bamboo for Gardens
by Ted Jordan Meredith
(Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2001)
276 pages; ISBN 0881925071

Lichens of North America
Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, and Stephen Sharnoff
(Yale University Press, 2001)
828 pages; ISBN 0 300 08249 5

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2001

WinnerSpecial Mention

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker : Traveller and Plant Collector

Conifers of California

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker :
Traveller and Plant Collector

by Ray Desmond
(Antique Collectors' Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1999)
286 pages; ISBN 1851493050

Conifers of California
by Ronald N. Lanner
(Cachuma Press, 1999)
274 pages; ISBN 0962850535; 0962850543

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2000

Winner 

Native American Ethnobotany

 

Native American Ethnobotany
by Daniel E. Moerman
(Timber Press, October 1998)
928 pages; ISBN 0881924539

 

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