Alan Holmes wrote:

"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
...
In article , Roger Van Loon
writes
If you will check, you will see that all serious British books on
???***????
garden plants, in their recent editions, include the USDA zone
system in their plant descriptions.

They do??
The ones I have don't!!

Nor mine!
Alan

They must be totally out of date then.
Which ones? (I'm lways glad to learn).
The only one I have, without the zome system, is W.J. Bean's splendid
five-volume work "Trees and shrubs hardy in the British Isles". But I
think the last edition is some 10 years old...
Regards,
Roger.