The American Gardener: A Sampler

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Allen Lacy
Macmillan, 1990 - 384 oldal

Allen Lacy has gathered together a colorful sampler of American gardening writing from Thomas Jefferson to our own day. Among the fifty-two writers represented are such national treasures as Celia Thaxter, Neltje Blanchan, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Katherine S. White.

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Introduction
3
Henry Ward Beecher A Plea for Health
17
Hanna Rion What My Garden Means to Me 1912
33
Jay Neugeboren Reflections on a Family Garden 1982
48
Candace Wheeler Mrs Thaxters Island Garden 1902
87
Elizabeth Lawrence Novemberand the Barbaric Scarlet
100
Henry Mitchell Marigolds and Mass Madness 1981
113
Pamela J Harper It Began with Butterfly Weed 1986
125
Mabel Osgood Wright Children Gathering Wildflowersand
195
William Lanier Hunt Wild Flowers of June and July 1982
201
Thomas Jefferson To Dr John Manners 1814
219
Louise Beebe Wilder Familiar Plant Names 1918
234
Julian R Meade Fine Flowers with Atrocious Names 1940
240
Bernard McMahon Destroy Insects on FruitTrees 1806
251
Children 1870
264
Neltje Blanchan Rudely Exposed to Public Gaze 1909
334

Celia Thaxter The Breath of Flowers 1894
133
Rosetta E Clarkson OldTime Fragrant Favorites 1940
156
Thalassa Cruso I Remember I Remember 1973
163
Amanda B Morris Poison Ivy 1882
176
Frank A Waugh The Ideal American Home 1927
342
Biographical Notes
357
Bibliography
363
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Allen Lacy is professor of philosophy at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the author of numerous books on gardening, including The Garden in Autumn and The Glory of Roses. He lives in Linwood, New Jersey.

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