NARGS Book of the Month

The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsessions

by Amy Stewart          New York: Random House, 2024.  $32.00 list $20.99 Amazon

I have been a fan of Amy Stewart’s writings for many years. A couple of notable books come to mind: “Flower Confidential” (2007), about the cut-flower industry and plant breeders looking for that perfect flower—a blue rose, perhaps? and “The Drunken Botanist” (2013), a survey of the...