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    The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

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    The author of The Drunken Botanist "offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants" ( Booklist ).American Horticultural Society Book Award WinnerChosen One of the Best Gardening Books of the Year by the Washington Post and National Pub... ... Leer más

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  • Wicked Bugs

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    The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks: 10th Anniversary Edition

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