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Title: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: newstart on November 16, 2009, 02:46:07 PM: Just a quick question has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet? thanks!
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: Maggi Young on November 16, 2009, 02:52:05 PM: Not as far as I know..... this is interesting......
http://www.faber.co.uk/article/2008/12/lawrence-hills-tribute

Mmm.. most available are original 1950 or reprint 1959.... had a search around found a copy of a revised reprint from 1976 online at AbeBooks... so that is something newer..... details are:
Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Theophrastus:
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:

Description:
484, 46 plates, 93 figs. HB. Vg. Reprint of revised 2nd edition. [B1870]. Bookseller Inventory # B1870

Bookseller: PEMBERLEY NATURAL HISTORY BOOKS BA
Address: IVER, Bucks, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Bookseller Since: March 13, 2001

Store Description: Pemberley Books - Established 1989. Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology. We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London, close to M25, Iver Rail Station and Heathrow Airport) We list only books which are immediately available from stock on ABE, but can supply many other books to order.
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on November 16, 2009, 05:13:28 PM: Two editions in three printings:

1950, 464 pp. first edition, Faber & Faber

1959, 484 pp. revised edition, Faber & Faber

1976. 484 pp. reprint of revised edition, Theophrastus

All of the Theophrastus issues of various titles are photo-reprints. None are actually revised.
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: newstart on November 16, 2009, 05:44:52 PM: Thank you! its a pity there is nothing revised rather than just a re-printed photo's. Appreciate you both looking into it though. Sorry if I have wasted your time as I was more thinking along lines of modern English revised version. Thanks for your answers!
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: David Shaw on November 16, 2009, 06:02:19 PM: I'm sorry as well, David. That is a book that I would like to see revised.
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: newstart on November 16, 2009, 06:07:51 PM: We just need a very wise person to revise it! Some one may eventually take up the mantle-a huge task I guess!
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 16, 2009, 08:13:41 PM: The original is still an excellent book for young or inexperienced propagators and I still go there occasionally. I doubt if there's a better source all in one place.
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: Stephenb on November 16, 2009, 10:28:31 PM: I was lucky enough to meet Lawrence Hills a couple of times when I was a student - great guy and inspiration and amazing life story struggling with being an undiagnosed coeliac for years but still achieving so much (read his self-biography), but I'd forgotten that he also wrote this book on alpines...amazing...
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: David Nicholson on November 17, 2009, 10:13:55 AM: Just ordered it.
Title: Re: Has L.D. Hills propagation of alpines been updated yet?
Post by: newstart on November 18, 2009, 12:36:01 PM: Can you let me no if it is revised. It seems only the photos are. thanks David.