Bibliography

Note: This list of references is in no way complete, but included are a few of the books and articles that I found especially useful in the writing of Allergy-Free Gardening.

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Bailey, Liberty Hyde, Bailey, Ethel Zoe, and Editors, Cornell University, Hortus Third, Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976, London, New York.

Cairns, Thomas, Modern Roses 10, The American Rose Society, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1995. For serious rose lovers, this is the book.

Clark, David, and Hogan, Elizabeth L., Editors, Sunset Western Garden Book, Lane Publishing Company, 1986, Menlo Park, CA. For the Pacific West Coast, this is one of the most useful general gardening books.

Flint, Harrison L., Landscape Plants for Eastern North America. John Wiley & Sons, 1983, New York.

Jacobson, Arthur Lee, North American Landscape Trees. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley 1996. One of the very best books on hardy landscape trees. Jacobson understands sex systems in trees and always includes this information. Great attention to detail.

Jelks, Mary MD, Allergy Plants, and also, Jelks, Mary MD, Aeroallergens of Florida. Immunolo and Allergy Clinics of NA 1889: 381-399.

Jury, S.L., Reynolds, Cutler, and Evans. The Euphorbiales. The Linnean Society of London, The Whitefriars Press, Great Britian,1987.

Lewis, Walter H., and Imber, Wayne E., Aeroallergens In The Midwestern United States: Pollen and Spores Hazardous to Health. IV Int. Palynol. Conf., Lucknow (1976-77) 3 : 466-474, 1981.

Lewis, Walter H., Airborne Pollen of the Neotropics. Grana 25:75-83, 1986. Uppsala 20 March 1986. ISSN 0017-3134.

Lewis, Walter H., Vinay, Prathibha, and Zenger, Vincent E., Airborne and Allergenic Pollen of North America. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1983. From a purely scientific point of view, I consider this the best book ever written on the connections between plants and pollen allergy.

Lewis, Walter H., Dixit, Anu, and Ward, Walter. Distribution and Incidence of North American Pollen Aeroallergens. Am J Otolaryngol, 12:205-226, 1991.

Lewis, Walter H., and Lewis, Memory Elvin. Medical Botany, John Wiley and Sons Publications, 1977, New York. A fascinating book!

Lewis, Walter H., Vinay, Prathibha, North American Pollinosis Due to Insect-Pollinated Plants. Washington University Department of Biology, May 1979, St Louis, Missouri.

Lewis, Walter H., Tropical to Warm Temperate Aerospora of Vascular Plants. 1990 Washington University, St Louis, Missouri. This is a very extensive bibliography of useful sites up to 1990. For the serious allergy researcher, this is a good place to start.

McMinn, Howard E., and Maino, Evelyn, Pacific Coast Trees, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981. A fine, easy-to-use book for identifying west coast trees.

Mortensen, Ernest, and Bullard, Ervin, Handbook of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Horticulture. USDA, May 1964, Washington DC.

Muntz, Philip A., and Keck, David D., A California Flora and Supplement, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1968. This is not light reading, but is nonetheless the "Bible" on native California species.

Nowak, David J., McHale, P.J., Ibarra, M., Crane, D., Stevens, J., and Luley, C. Modeling the effects of Urban Vegetation on Air Pollution. Plenum Press, 1998, New York.

Rapp, Doris MD, Is This Your Child? William Morrow and Company, 1991, New York. Doris Rapp is a true pioneer in allergy study.

Sargent, Charles Sprague, Manual of the Trees of North America. Dover Publications, Inc., 1965, New York. One of the very best.

Snyder, Leon C., Gardening In the Upper Midwest. University of Minnesota Press, 1978, Minneapolis.

Taylor, Norman, Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is an old but wonderful book. One of my all time favorites, this is a very useful general gardening book.

Utterback, Christine, Reliable Roses. Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1997, New York. Good book for picking out roses with extra disease resistance.

Van Gelderen, D.M., de Jong, P.C., Oterdoom, H.J., Maples of the World, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, 1994. The very best book I've ever read on Maples.

Winter, Ruth, The people's handbook of Allergies and Allergens, Contemporary Books, Inc., 1984, Chicago.

Wodehouse, R. P., Pollen Grains. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1935, New York. Wodehouse was one of the first and one of the best. Pollen Grains is a classic in allergy literature.