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A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perényi draws upon her wide-ranging knowledge of gardening lore to create a delightful, witty blend of how-to advice, informed opinion, historical insight, and philosophical musing. There are entries in praise of earthworms and in protest of rock gardens, a treatise on the sexual politics of tending plants, and a paean to the salubrious effect of gardening (see “Longevity”). Twenty years after its initial publication, Green Thoughts remains as much a joy to read as ever.
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Allen Lacy, former gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times and the author of numerous gardening books.
Customer Reviews:
now this is real education.......2007-10-12
while his other book, "Dumbing us Down" is a much quicker read, this is the book in which he really explains how it all came to be and how a few elite groups got their hands on the controls of the american public education system or really who started and for what purpose. read "Dumbing us Down" first and then read this book when you want to know more... a lot more. this is a lot to take in and really reads almost more like a text book, but is well worth the read. you may just find yourself thinking things you never thought before or thinking to yourself that you knew something like this must have been the case. either way Gatto puts together a wonderfully detailed and deep probing look at how this system of mass schooling and over all dumbing/creating a robotic population came to be.
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A superlative analysis of contemporary gardens as well as fascinating collection of landscapes around the world, Making the Modern Garden is a definitive study of the philosophy and practice of garden design at the outset of the twenty-first century. Author Christopher Bradley-Hole, himself a landscape designer of note, discusses the process of garden design in a presentation of modern landscapes at all sizes and locations. Among the designers in the book are Fernando Caruncho, Peter Walker, Kathryn Gustafson, and Vladamir Sitta; different types of gardens include roof gardens, courtyards, urban and country gardens, and dramatic landscapes.
Bradley-Hole also reviews the ever-changing palette of plants used in the modernist garden as well as materials and landscape features. A point of reference throughout is the modern art, design, and landscape architecture of the twentieth century, represented by artists and architects including Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Roberto Burle Marx.
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The only book written on modern home grain milling. This book manages to present a technical topic in a fascinating and entertaining way. Unusually detailed and littered with historical tidbits. Includes mill selection criteria, an education on bread wheats, secrets for making deliciously light whole meal breads, and purchasing contacts for dozens of grain mills, plus oat rollers and bread wheats.
Customer Reviews:
flour power.......2007-09-06
This book does what it does very well. What it does just wasn't what I wanted.
good for a beginner, of limited value for those experienced.......2007-05-13
Far too much 'preliminary' stuff and not enough recipes. Over half the book describes grains, grinders, stuff like that, which is interesting to a beginner, but of little value to someone who knows something about using fresh-ground grains. It would be nice to find a more advanced version with more creative recipes and ideas.
A top pick - and a 'must' for any serious whole foods cook.......2006-05-25
FLOUR POWER in its revised new edition remains the ONLY comprehensive guide on the market to home flour milling - and therefore remains a top pick for any serious home or public library cookbook collection seeking a strong representation of whole-grain cookbooks. Almost all commercial flours have lost fiber and minerals from processing - but home millers have a unique opportunity to retain these lost food values. FLOUR POWER: A GUIDE TO MODERN HOME GRAIN MILLING covers everything; from equipment needed to stone grinding, obtaining the best grains to mill, stocking the home granary and much more. A top pick - and a 'must' for any serious whole foods cook.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
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A Flour Powerful Book.......2005-12-16
I'm a bread-baking microbiologist with a different take on this book. One reviewer thought it had too much info but I think when an author examines a topic microscopically - without leaving a
who-what-where-when-why question about any aspect - the reader can't lose. And even if you happened to decide milling wasn't for you (a possibility another reviewer speculated about), the book is still a treasure trove of tidbits, details, history and how-to's that make for satisfying reading on a hot-tea evening.
Once I got my mill (I took one of the "quick-pick" options the author provided.) and some good high-protein wheat (I'm lucky to have the legendary Bob's Red Mill within driving distance.), it
was surprisingly easy to get bread without a hassle every three days or so. Although the bread machine makes a crust slightly thicker than I like, the rest of the bread is incredible and it's truly a time-saver. As the author of this book stresses, it's not the milling that takes time, it's the bread making.
Another book I recommend to real gourmet bakers (the kind who wouldn't stoop to a bread machine) for some delicious and heart-healthy ways to use home-milled grains is "Mediterranean
Grains and Greens" by Paula Wolfert. Similarly well written and detailed, it provides a tantalizing glimpse of a whole new realm of possibilities for using whole grains (and greens).
A very informative book on milling technology and home milling........2005-09-08
`flour power' by Marleeta F. Basey covers a much broader agenda than a coverage of grinding wheat for bread at home. While this book makes many, many good points, especially to an old style `Whole Earth Catalogue' hippie like myself, it starts of on the wrong foot with me with some exaggerations about the history of bread and milling grains at home.
Two early statements give a misleading notion of the history of bread and home milling, where the author gives us the sense that early agricultural households were baking baguettes in 3000 BC and that the majority of households were grinding their own flour up to the early 19th century when the industrial revolution took milling under its wing. On no less an authority than Elizabeth David in `English Bread and Yeast Cookery' and various authorities writing on French and Italian bread baking, I am sure that both grain milling and bread baking became very early specialities in development of civilization. In the ancient Roman world, especially, I know that both milling and bread baking were specialized crafts since home milling produced a product very inferior to what could be done with the great water driven mills and very few homes could afford to have an oven.
Fortunately, the value of this book is not in its historical perspective as it is in its two major agendas concerning the superior nutritional value of home ground wheat meal and the contribution to self sufficiency made by the use of a good home grain mill. I need to emphasize here that what home grain mills produce from wheat berries is NOT white all-purpose flour. This point needs to be made clearly to be sure you do not anticipate being able to buy this book to find an alternative source to your handy blue and white bag of King Arthur unbleached bread flour. In fact, one of the two points of the book is that wheat meal is nutritionally far superior to King Arthur's finest white or whole-wheat flour. The author goes to great lengths to be clear on the point that a modern mechanical process that simply cannot be reproduced by a home machine produces white flour. One result of this situation is that your beautiful, freshly milled wheat meal may simply not work in your favorite Peter Reinhart or Rose Levy Beranbaum or Peter Ortiz recipes. They will certainly not produce the classic Italian and French loaves from Parisian batards to Foccacia, let alone egg breads or holiday specialities like brioche, paska, or panettone.
This book is assuming that you are reading it for material for a fairly basic lifestyle change. It is not for nothing that the author is recommending you consider a home mill which can be operated both manually and with electricity. It is also no accident that the author tells us of ways to buy and store up to a year's supply of grain for milling. Ms. Basey is every bit the reincarnation of the hippies we see in the second reel of the movie `Easy Rider' who embrace a lifestyle where they grow their own grain and presumably have the means of milling it themselves, which, if it is corn, is not too far fetched as the Indians in their southwestern terroir still hand mill their corn. But that doesn't work if you live in Saddle Brook, NJ or even Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which brings to mind the question of why there are no references to the Amish in this book, but that is an entirely incidental issue. My last word on the survivalist aspect of this book is that a hand cranked mill may not be much good if you install the gizmo in your basement and the power goes out. A more likely scenario is that you will have a gas powered generator to run your hand mill and provide power for your laptop computer and the oven needed to bake your bread.
The two most important issues in the book are the major nutritional advantages of wheat meal and the selection of the best home mill to meet your needs, which may go far beyond the simple ability to turn wheat berries into flour. A device that can grind hard foodstuffs into a powder or paste has immense utility in processing the whole range of food grains including corn, barley, dried beans, nuts, and seeds. The problem here is that not every device sold as a home wheat mill will handle oily nuts and seeds and do a credible job of producing nut butters.
Getting back to bread, part of Ms. Basey's case is based on the ease with which bread can be made in modern bread machines. Unfortunately, I can't offer an opinion on this aspect, as I am have never used a bread machine and suspect that even the best bread machines are incapable of reproducing truly good artisinal or speciality breads, so I'll stick with my KitchenAid and Kenmore oven. She also does not address the situation about what to do with your bread machine when the power goes out.
All in all, this book is a lot of fun to read and to fantasize about what the neoprimitive life would be like with your basement stocked with bags of wheat, rice, oats, and corn, bunkering your bench on which your grain mill sits in anticipation of that long anticipated weekend when you really get down to grind some flour. It's biggest problem is that while it gives us everything we need to evaluate mills ourselves, it doesn't stick its neck out to evaluate and recommend the models made by the manufacturers we can access by phone, mail, or internet.
Like good books on pickling, cheese making, and tofu making, this is a fun book to read, even if you have no intentions of ever buying one of these gizmos. It may even succeed in talking you out of doing it.
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Just in time for the 40th anniversary of its original publication, Margery Fish's classic gardening memoir has been published in the United States for the first time. Fish and her husband Walter, a former editor of the Daily Mail, bought a dilapidated house and two acres of limey clay in Somerset in 1937, fearing the onset of war. For the next two decades, they cultivated, pruned, and watered, with Walter providing the direction and the sense of order and Margery the flowers, the unstructured flora, and the wry observations. As in all of the best gardening books, Fish's memoir leavens technical information on gardening with memory and reflection. The book is above all the story of a marriage within the story of a landscape. Walter's lectures on the importance of structure, the distant war, the hardships of postwar England, come through slightly muted, like the outlines of buildings seen through dense foliage.
Book Description
First published in Britain in 1956 and never before available in America,
We Made a Garden is the classic story of a unique and enduring English country garden. One of Britain’s most esteemed gardening writers recounts how she and her husband set about creating an exemplary cottage garden from unpromising beginnings on the site of the former farmyard and rubbish heap that surround their newly purchased home in the countryside of Somerset, England. Each imbued with a strong set of horticultural opinions and passions, Mr. and Mrs. Fish negotiate the terrain of their garden, by turns separately and together, often with humorous collisions. From the secret to cultivating the smoothest lawn to the art of lifting and replanting tulip bulbs to the landscaping possibilities of evergreens, the diverse elements of successful gardening—and delightful writing—are bound together by Mr. and Mrs. Fish’s aspiration to cultivate that most precious and slow-growing quality—the fundamental character of a good garden.
Customer Reviews:
Great Garden, Great Book, Not So Great Marriage.......2004-02-25
Margery Fish must have loved her Walter very, very much to have put up with him all those years. Her account of the garden they made despite each other is one of the great triumphs of the "garden memoir" genre, and vastly more interesting than most such works.
The book is haunted by the presence of Walter, and his likes and dislikes, and right ways and wrong ways to do anything. You can't help but feel Mrs Fish must have breathed the world's biggest sigh of relief at his passing, since it finally allowed her to get on with her gardening.
Here's a sample: Walter would smother her seedlings by putting too much manure around HIS roses, he decorated the outbuildings with bought mounted animal trophy heads (until they rotted), and he would stand guard over his wife while she planted dahlias to ensure she did so 'correctly.'
Not to be missed! (And for others in the just-as-absorbing-when-not-about-the-garden books, you must turn to Beverley Nichols and any of his brilliantly charming works about house or garden).
Note: a 3 star ranking from me is actually pretty good; I reserve 4 stars for tremendously good works, and 5 only for the rare few that are or ought to be classic; unfortunately most books published are 2 or less.
A Slightly Depressing Weed Of A Book.......2003-01-30
I wanted to like this book. I just finished the Dudley Warner Book, in the same classic gardening series, which I had savored like a good box of chocolates, rationing out a few pages, each day. But this one--oddly enough--depressed me slightly. It has a sad subplot. You have this stiff upper lip British Matron, who was married to Walter, who oppressed every good idea she had for their garden. She basically isn't able to implement her visions until he dies. But once he's dead you realize, in her humerous complaints, that she misses him. The rest is all gardening, without the breathtaking observations Charles Dudley Warner has, about plants, and without the richness of his language. Fish is an OK writer, but she's not great. I guess Charles Dudley Warner is an impossible act to follow. Warner has one chapter where General Ulysses Grant visits, then he realizes he must burn the chair he sat in. He's unbelievably funny. That book is full of life and a grand vision. Fish's book is somehow claustrophobic. Reading Warner's book, I feel like I'm in a most interesting place filled with surprises, in Fish's book I feel like I'm trapped in a garden, I'd rather exit. I've read about half of her book, and you'd have to pay me to finish it. I frown when I see it on the pile of books behind my comode.
Garden story...........2002-11-28
WE MADE A GARDEN is a lovely little book by Margery Fish, an "elderly" English lady who with her husband (he who must be obeyed or cleverly deceived it seems) moved to a country manor and converted the mostly lawn areas into gardens of shrubs, flowers, and herbs. First published in the U.K. in the 1950s, the book has been republished as part of the `Modern Library Garden Series' edited by Michael Pollan.
Fish's little book will be considered a gem by experienced gardeners who can picture the plants she names in the mind's eye, identify with her triumphs and failures, and appreciate a useful clues from an obviously seasoned hand. Garden veterans will also identify with the greedy gardener who never has enough space, the stubborn gardener who plants Nepeta despite it's runaway habits, the recalcitrant gardener who hides the verboten brilliant orange Lychnis chalcedonica at the back of the beds, and the disobedient gardener who leaves many openings in the cemented walkway hubby designed to thwart weeds.
The book may appear a bit dense to the new gardener as it describes activities such as composing flower beds, creating walkways, and engineering rock gardens with inferior rocks,with no illustrations, other than a few black and white photos-one of Mrs Fish on bended knee at work in her rock garden. However, all is not lost. Determined gardeners unfamiliar with the various plants Mrs Fish names can refer to a nursery catalogue since 60-70 percent of the plants available in the 1950s can be found contemporary mail order publications
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"Grass is passé," says veteran landscape designer Keith Davitt. He goes beyond the traditional lawn in this book, now in paperback, in which he offers a number of fresh, new ideas for transforming front and backyards into sanctuaries that pack plenty of curb appeal and offer a hideaway for you and your family and friends.
This refreshing book offers myriad ideas for nontraditional outdoor spaces that are as beautiful as they are low maintenance. You'll discover how to banish cutting, watering, and weed worries forever by creating lovely outdoor spaces that replace the traditional grass lawn with rock walls, sculptures, native grasses, mosses, wildflowers, and more.
Davitt guides you through making design choices that suit your unique needs, such as determining which plants thrive in particular climates and soil conditions. He shows how to beautify your landscape with numerous materials and techniques, ultimately proving that it is possible to create a truly stunning garden without grass.
Book Description
Oft quoted but seldom credited,Charles Dudley Warner’s My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal early work in the then fledgling genre of American nature writing. Warner—prominent in his day as a writer and newspaper editor—was a dedicated amateur gardener who shared with Mark Twain, his close friend and neighbor, a sense of humor that remains deliciously fresh today.
In monthly dispatches, Warner chronicles his travails in the garden, where he and his cat, Calvin, seek to ward off a stream of interlopers, from the neighbors’ huge-hoofed cows and thieving children, to the reviled, though “propagatious,” pusley weed. To read Warner is to join him on his rounds of his beloved vegetable patch, to feel the sun on his sore back, the hoe in his blistered hands, and yet, like him, never to lose sight of “the philosophical implications of contact with the earth, and companionship with gently growing things.”
This Modern Library edition is published with an extensive new Introduction by Allan Gurganus, author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All and The Practical Heart.
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The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild-oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods.
Customer Reviews:
Not Your Usual Garden Book.......2004-05-13
MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN is a slim volume in a series of neglected gardening classics being reprinted by Modern Library, however, to suggest the subject of the book is limited to gardening is to do it a great disservice. In the guise of a week-by-week account of one summer in his garden Charles Dudley Warner waxes philosophical on religion, society, animals, schoolboys, hunters and neighbors as well as plants. Its style will feel familiar to readers of the later literary garden-musings of E.B. White and Elizabeth Von Arnim. Although Warner died in 1900 his language is remarkably fresh and the complaints and joys of gardening familiar. The side comments on women's suffrage only remind one with surprise that in spite of the similarities he was living in a very different time.
I found the book when tracking down the following Warner quote, "Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!" and in reading the book discovered other gems such as, "Nothing shows one who his friends are, like prosperity and ripe fruit. I had a good friend in the country, whom I almost never visited except in cherry-time. By your fruits you shall know them." It is the gentle humor and subtle wisdom of his observations that elevate Warner's book above the ordinary. Being, at present, a city dweller transplanted from childhood gardens, I found reading the book a great comfort.
Behold the onion...........2002-05-18
Charles Dudley Warner appears to have lived an enviable life. He was educated when most men did not have an opportunity to become educated. He was editor and publisher of the 'Hartford Courant' and lived in Hartford next door to Samuel Clements. Warner was not only a neighbor but a good friend of Mark Twain with whom he co-authored THE GILDED AGE, and with whom he seems to have shared a sense of humor. Warner's writing is insightful and funny, but not always politically correct according to 21st Century U.S. standards. Allen Gurganus introduces the book with an overly long essay.
In MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN Warner shares 19 weeks of life in his garden (one growing season). His garden is located in Hartford at the edge of a game preserve. During the course of the summer, President Grant is in Hartford and stops by for a visit. As the men sit in Warner's yard, Grant says he can hardly wait to retire to his own garden as he is fed up with politics. Warner has been fighting pusley in his garden and he and Grant discuss the advantage of inviting immigrants who eat pusley and would soon rid the country of both problems.
Warner has various encounters with: hunters tracking quail who stray from the game preserve, one of whom claims he is looking for a lost chicken; small boys who eat berries from his vines and gather nuts from his trees; birds who attack his pea pods, the neighbor's hens who range too freely until he is looking for one to fill a pot; and the owner of a cow pastured in his yard. In spite of drought, theft, and green worms, at the end of the summer Warner is able to put aside enough vegetables to feel he has accomplished something and then his wife Polly takes credit for the work.
Of interest to me is that more than 100 years after Warner published his book, U.S. gardeners can still complain about some of the same things Warner complained about--and more. Most gardeners know that the U.S. has been infested with a whole array of pests and diseases that were not around when Warner gardened. For example, three new plagues including the Varroa mite have attacked American honey bees since the 1980s. Partly these attacks are owing to the introduction of containerized shipments that cannot be inspected and may hold verboten materials (plants, animals, insects). Partly these problems are owing to flagrant violations by individuals who believe U.S. laws concerning the transport of "foreign" plants do not apply to them. Warner's worries about green worms in his celery, witch grass in his potato hills, and pulsey seem mild in comparison.
Only read Warner.......2002-03-13
I was intrigued by the title and sold by the exerpt. Charles Dudley Warner is fun. But skip the opening 30 pages or so. It's not that the other gentlemen don't write well, but they're not exactly fun. Besides, I didn't buy it to read a discussion of his more boring, 'professional' work in all those pages numbered with tiny Roman numerals. So go directly to Warner's first essay (which is the exerpt) on page 11.
Philosopher's Garden.......2001-08-02
Nicely written and witty book about the pleasures of gardening and its relationship to other aspects of life.
Book Description
From the internationally acclaimed Czech writer Karel Capek comes this beautifully written and marvelously apt account of the trials and tribulations of the gardener’s life. First published in Prague in 1929, The Gardener’s Year combines a richly comic portrait of life in the garden, narrated month by month, with a series of delightful illustrations by the author’s older brother and collaborator, Josef. Capek’s gardeners—all too human, despite their lofty aspirations—often look the fool, whether they be found sopping wet, victims of the cobralike water hose, or hunched over, hands immersed in the soil, “presenting their rumps to the splendid azure sky.” In their repeated folly, Capek gives us not only cause for laughter but also, in the end, “testimony of the imperishable and miraculous optimism of the human race.”
This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a New York Times editorialist and the author of Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.
Customer Reviews:
Gardener's Gentle Humor.......2007-01-12
I bought this book for a friend, as a gift upon her achieving Master Gardener certification. I expected something a bit different, a bit more practical, perhaps, but after leafing through the pages, I read the entire book before I gave it to her. Written by the man known to most of us as a European author of the early 20th century on more weighty subjects, this man's witty description of himself as the sometimes manic master of his small domestic garden both amuses and somehow comforts those of us who share his enthusiasm. I laughed long and loudly at Capek's description of what ensued from his planting of the seeds from just one packet, at the many dozens of little plants in little pots, all of which became bigger and bigger, and had to be taken outdoors, finally, to find places in a tiny garden patch. This is a short book, with short chapters, just right for picking up in odd moments during the winter months when we are only dreaming about the coming of gardening season once again.
Wonderful and quick read!.......2006-08-23
I brought this as one of those suggested sells, you know the "people who brought blah blah blah also brought this book" . . . so I did. And boy am I glad I did! Karel Capek is a wonderful author who struck a resounding chord in the heart and soul of this gardener. It was not only wonderfully clever but inspired me to tend to my little rooted, green outdoor children and give them bushels of attention, care and compost ASAP!!! Loved it!
Lowdown on Gardeners.......2005-07-06
This is the best book about gardeners I know of. With grace and humor, this book delightfully explores the glories and foibles of serious amateur gardeners. Any garden nut who reads this book without laughing and almost crying over this inciteful outing of the gardener's soul is a callous person indeed.
Eternal spring...........2002-05-09
I don't know much about Czech literature, so I don't know if the Prague Spring had anything to do with the writing of Karel Capek, but I would not be surprised to discover a connection. "Leaves wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny percussion caps out of which the spring will crack....if we could only see that secret swarming of the future within us, we should say that our melancholy and distrust is silly and absurd and that the best thing of all is to be..living.."
Karel Capek wrote those words in 1929 when he was 39 years old. By 1938, the year the Nazis invaded Prague, he was dead. His brother Josef died a few years later in Bergan-Belsen. But this book is not about those sad events. This book is about a year in the life of a good gardener, how ever extraordinary a writer he might have been.
During his lifetime, Capek realized that humans were becoming enslaved by fascism and run-amuck technology. The ancient and cyclical daily practices of humans were dying before his eyes --the beet farmers stacking their fall harvests at the railroad stations; the wagon loads of manure that could be delivered for garden beds; the nursury men who understood plants giving way to "market garden centers" staffed by those who regularly misidentify plants and stocked with items that "move" (produce a high volume of sales).
THE GARDENER'S YEAR is a reflective book. You don't have to garden to appreciate it, but if you garden, you will probably laugh on more than one occasion. Where is the gardener who has not struggled with a hose; Who has not looked with greed on a bald spot and attempted to squeeze six more phlox plants in, only to discover a dormant sping plant; And, where is the gardener who has not wandered about the yard with a plant in each hand trying to find just one more place for a perennial. Capek understood the gardener's soul. We are a greedy lot, obsessed with dirt, happy in a wagon load of s___, and hostile to many-legged life forms, but, we are also the best sort of human beings who understand the meaning and importance of life.
Capek's writing reminds me of that of Henry Mitchell who wrote two columns (one on gardening the other on "everyday" philosophy) for the Washington Post. Like Mitchell Capek had the gift of converting his own gardening experiences into tales that inform, enlighten, and illustrate the best and the worst of human nature. "I tell you there is no death, not even sleep. We only pass from one season to another. We must be patient with life, for it is eternal."
Amazon's Review is Totally Off Base........2002-03-17
There is humor and self-deprecation in The Gardener's Year...This is a book that will appeal to the gardener, the philospher, and the Zen deotee, the reader of self-help books, as well as the humorist. Here are quotes: "After his death, the gardener does not become a butterfly but ... a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous and spicey delights of the soil." "I find a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil". "The life of a gardener is active and full of will." There are easy references to German philosophers, campanula alpina, Tolstoy, the perfume of manure. All this is presented with humor but there are no fools in this book. It could easily be subtitled "Zen and the Pleasant Art of Gardening." It didn't change my life, but it made it better. For Godsake, by this book!
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Would you like to have your own private pest control consultant? Our book is just that. It will help you protect "good bugs" and eliminate harmful ones. It's quick and ready to use, but answers your questions with up-to-date facts based on scientific experiments.
Learn about soil solarization, composting, use of diseases, beneficial insects, and low-toxic pesticides to control pest insects.
Customer Reviews:
Tons of Info!.......2004-07-11
I ordered this book directly from the author and was amazed at how much helpful information it contained and how user-friendly it was. I ordered two more to give as gifts. I highly recommend it.
Book Description
Miller’s guide to the modern examines design styles and movements from roughly 1925 onwards, looking at how these ideals translate into practical application in the decorative arts. “Focus on” features profile the most important, influential designers in depth, and this is the only volume that gives collectors an overview of all the different media. It tackles questions such as: “Why is one piece more valuable than another?” and “How does one spot an original prototype from a reproduction?” Anyone with an interest in buying modern designs must have this.
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