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OCCS Library Books for checkout Updated May 2008 New book Call Ed Read at least two days before meeting to check out book(s). Leave message if no answer. 1-714-278-2766 Book checkout time is one month; please return them the following meeting unless prior arrangement has been made. Name Author Publisher Second Author #Copies 100 Roadside Wildflowers of Southwest Uplands in Natural Color Natt Dodge Southwest Parks and Monuments Assoc. 1 Agaves of Baja California, The Gentry, Howard Scott California Academy of Sciences 1 Aloes for Greenhouse and Indoor Cultivation Noble, W.C. National Cactus and Succulent Society 1 Aloes of South West Africa Jankowitz, W. J. Division of Nature Conservation and Tourism 1 Anza-Borrego Desert Region, The Lindsay, Lowell and Diana Wilderness Press 1 Ariocarpus et cetera, the special, smaller genera of Mexican cacti Pilbeam, John BCSS Bill Weightman 1 Arizona Flora Kearney, Thomas H. 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