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EDITED BY Gwen Steege

TECHNICAL EDIT AND PLANT KEY BY Elizabeth P. Stell

ART DIRECTION AND COVER DESIGN BY Kent Lew

TEXT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION BY Vertigo Design and Cynthia McFarland

PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE BY Jessica Armstrong and Jennifer Jepson Smith

COVER AND INTERIOR PHOTOGRAPHS © Rosemary Kautzky, except for those on pages 110, 111, and 192 ©MACORE, Inc.

ILLUSTRATIONS © Christine Erikson

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Text © 2005 by Barbara Pleasant

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Pleasant, Barbara.

   The complete houseplant survival manual / by Barbara Pleasant ; photography by Rosemary Kautzky.

       p. cm.

   Includes index.

   ISBN 978-1-58017-569-2

   1. House plants. I. Title.

SB419.P573 2005

635.9’65—dc22

2005014205