Taylor's Seedling Drawings

This book will serve as a reference for scientists, amateur botanists, seed enthusiasts, and anyone who wishes to learn more about the beginning of a plant's life. It contains two hundred meticulous seedling drawings of cultivated plants from around the world.

When plants are at the seedling stage, they look quite different from their vegetative stage. To manage your garden beds, you'll need to be good at identifying seedlings. What started as this authors research into plant shoots eventually became a large portfolio of botanical art. The species cataloged in this book represent a variety of plant forms found growing in eastern North America that includes trees, shrubs, flowers, and weeds.

Tom is a career drafter who started his profession when a pencil was still the tool for the trade. When computer-aided drafting became the new standard, Tom learned how to use the word processing and image editing programs that enabled him to publish this book of his own drawings.