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Title: The Gardener's Bed-Book : Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by RICHARDSON WRIGHT, DOMINIQUE BROWNING ISBN: 0-8129-6873-5 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This wonderful, charming, and enlightening book is a treasure. Aside from several outdated terms and a few politically incorrect moments, it's well worth the price of admission. You may, however, want to skip the part about the pigs if you're sequeamish. Other than that it was enjoyable and a great look back at a time long ago when things were simpler. Great for that table next to the bed in the guest bedroom!. I highly recommend this book!
Also recommended: McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood--A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens."
Rating: 4
Summary: Gardening seventy years ago....
Comment: Editor and writer Michael Pollen has added Richardson Wright's THE GARDENER'S BED BOOK (first published in 1929) to the Modern Library Garden Series. Although Wright included an entry for every day of the year plus a longer piece for each of the first 11 months, I read about ten pages a night and thus finished it in about a month. Wright was the editor-in-chief of House and Garden for thirty four years. He and his wife were upscale, maintaining homes in New York City and Connecticut. He had a hired gardener to help him mind his acreage and apparently room for pigs and chickens.
Wright says he has not written a "how-to" gardening book. However, he offers mostly useful garden suggestions at the end of each entry (for those in growing zone 5 or 6 in Connecticut), as well as a few bits of wisdom. Wright also wrote a few comments some will find offensive. Vegetarians will find his interaction with two pigs named WEE-WEE and FANNIE a bit painful. (He raised and slaughtered them during the course of the year.) African Americans may object to either one or both of two entries in the latter part of the book. (i.e., Wright and his wife collected antiques and among other items he was searching for a "yard-boy.")
Wright offers some sage advice, such as working off anger by destroying tent caterpillar nests and never giving up on a plant until you've tried it thrice. He also suggests the need for a club for men who have given up golf and taken up gardening which he views as a superior activity. He has some suggestions about tracking the weather using hard to find antiques such as a Dutch weather glass that may be more reliable than "modern" technology. (My bones are more reliable than modern technology!!) He says one should not attempt to garden on torrid days and suggests laying in the sun as long as you can in October. He laments the loss of burning autumn leaves, and fireplaces consuming cedar or apple wood. He and his wife both think of their "top" garden on days when things are tough in NYC. Wright provides insights into the life of a gentleman gardener living in a different era, but much of what he says remains salient.
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Title: Old Herbaceous : A Novel of the Garden by Reginald Arkell, Penelope Hobhouse ISBN: 0812967380 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Green Thoughts : A Writer in the Garden by ELEANOR PERENYI, ALLEN LACY ISBN: 037575945X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gardener's Latin: A Lexicon by Bill Neal, Barbara Damrosch ISBN: 1565123840 Publisher: Algonquin Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner, Allan Gurganus ISBN: 0375759468 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Paths of Desire : The Passions of a Suburban Gardener by Dominique Browning ISBN: 0743246659 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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