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Lecture, slideshow and book signing with Amy StewartWednesday, June 1, 2011 at 7 PM

Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

San Fr ancisco’s Conservatory of Flowers presents a new e x hibition

Wicked Pl ants: Am y Stewart’s Beloved Botanical Atrocities

April 7 – Oc tober 30, 2011

Paralysis, strangulation, derangement—these are just a few of the misdeeds of the plant kingdom as chronicled by award-winning author Amy

Stewart in her 2009 New York Times bestseller, Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities.

On the eve of the release of Stewart’s newest book Wicked Bugs, Algonquin Books is pleased to announce a new opportunity for the public to get to know many of the horticultural rogues and assassins featured in Wicked Plants this summer at San Francisco’s Conservatory of Flowers.

It’s mayhem under glass, as the country’s oldest existing wood and glass greenhouse transforms its Special Exhibits Gallery into an eerie English garden full of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations.

Building on the fascinating plant portraits in Amy Stewart’s book, the Conservatory introduces visitors to living examples of dozens of infamous plants that have left their mark on history and claimed many an unfortunate victim.

This summer, in a mysterious, old Victorian conservatory, a garden of deadly delights beckons brave souls.

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill • www.algonquin.com

Mee t the Author!

Wicked Plants:A Book of Botanical Atrocities

by Amy StewartMay 2009 $18.95

Available wherever books are sold.

A Book of Botanical Atrocities