Award-winning and popular author and photographer Ken Druse has combined years of propagation experience, with over 500 photos both illustrating quite clearly the concepts and practices of propagation or over 700 genera and providing inspiration with artists eye. This book would be appropriate in the potting shed, on the coffee table, or for bedside reading. Of course any such reference begins with a section on the underlying botany. Although most might yawn at this and skip it, you may not if you read his introduction paragraph. For the same reason that the physician needs to know about human physiology.
Sexual propagation comes down to the seed.
Shake a few seeds into the palm of your hand and behold the essence of creation. Plants can also reproduce in ways that are harder for humans to relate to, generating entire new entities from bits and pieces. Throughout the book is great, easily understood advice from the author as well as from the many experts he has consulted. Consider some of his closing words. To become a great propagator, you must have patience, but to begin to propagate plants, all you need is curiosity.