The CBHL Newsletter keeps members advised of significant events, exhibitions,  new publications, notes from the annual meeting, and activities of fellow council members.

Regular features include member news, book reviews, columns on web resources and on preservation and conservation, and other news items and announcements.

Please note: the CBHL Newsletter is now only available online in a PDF format. The printed version is no longer published, starting with No. 154, September 2019.

ISSN 1543-2653 (print version, to June 2019); ISSN 1545-5734 (electronic version)

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  • 53rd Annual Meeting: Meeting Planning in Difficult Times, Robin Everly.
  • From the President, Brandy Kuhl
  • Transcribing Scientific Notebooks and Garden Talks, Amanda Lettner
  • CBHL Members’ West News edited by Beth Brand
    • Good Things Still Happen, Irene Holiman
  • CBHL Members’ East News edited by Shelly Kilroy.
    • New Space for the Peter M. Wege Library by Shelly Kilroy
      • Book Reviews edited by Gillian Hayward
          • Plants Go To War by Judith Sumner, reviewed by Charlotte Tancin

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        • Floret Farm’s Discovering Dahlias by Erin Benzakein, reviewed by Gillian Hayward
      • Sweet Peas in Worcestershire: Horticulturalist Hilda Hemus, Judith M. Taylor

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  • CBHL Annual Literature Awards
    • Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington by Cindy Talbott Roché, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson, Nick Otting and Robert Korfhage
    • Rankafu: Orchid Print Album by Stephen Kirby, Toshikazu Doi and Toru Otsuka
    • Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest, 3rd. ed. by Arthur Kruckeberg and Linda Chalker-Scott
    • The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
    • What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil
    • The Night Flower:The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus by Lara Hawthorne
  • From the President, Brandy Kuhl
  • CBHL Members’ West News
      • Drosera of the New Jersey Pinelands, U.S.A. by Alvin Liu and Daniel DiPietro

    Guide to the Vascular Flora of Buxton Woods, Dare County, North Carolina, U.S.A. by Amanda L. Faucette, Alexander Krings, and David L. Lindbo

  • CBHL Members’ East News
    • Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and Science at Harvard by Jennifer Brown, Scott E. Fulton, and Donald H. Pfister, and Photographer Natalja Kent
    • Judith A. Warnement Retirement Announcement
    • Pennsylvania Horticulture Society McLean Library Update, Janet Evans
    • When Collections Come to Life, Kristine Paulus
  • Preservation: Understanding Bookbindings, Kathy Crosby and Charlotte Tancin
  • Miss Willmott’s Ghost, Judith M. Taylor
  • Book Reviews
    • Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara M. Thiers

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  • Table of contents to come

See also : Issues Nos 1-90

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