Bible v New Testament
29 March 2010 22:31:09
Bible v New Testament
Today I discovered that I have been using the New Testament, thinking it was the whole Bible!
Let me explain. My brother bought me an RHS Encyclopaedia one Christmas, pictured right. It is The Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners' Encyclopaedia of Plants & Flowers, 4th edition, 2006, Editor in Chief Christopher Brickell. It has 8000 plants and was a lovely present.
I have been using this book as my main reference book. I found it good for most of my needs although it doesn't have some of the more exotic plants.
Recently I was given a 2nd RHS Encyclopaedia, pictured right, also as a gift (lucky me) but I barely looked at it because it was published in 1996 and I thought the one from my brother must surely be more up to date.
Only today did I compare the two books. The 2nd one - RHS A-Z Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants (1996, Editor in Chief Christopher Brickell) is actually far superior. It has 1,500 plants, a better layout and detailed cultural information - it even says what temperature to germinate seed at for the plant in question. I did a check for a couple of plants I'd recently failed to find in my other reference book and found them in this 1996 one.
Anyway, my point is - how would you know what to be buying? The titles of these books are really similar yet one is far superior to the other.
Gardening jobs done today - potted up my Lilium nepalense and Galtonia candicans bulbs, potted on my Canna seedlings and sowed a tray of Gaillardia (thanks Liga & Krista).