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Title: The American Gardener by William Cobbett, Verlyn Klinkenborg ISBN: 0-8129-6737-2 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Trip to garden of yesterday....
Comment: THE AMERICAN GARDENER is one in a series of historical gardening books edited by Michael Pollin and published by the Modern Library of Gardening. Although William Cobbett's newly republished book was first printed in 1856, it contains many observations contemporary gardeners will find both salient and wise. AG is divided into several sections: laying out gardens, managing hot beds and green houses (which will be of interest to those living in cooler climates); and propagating and cultivating all sorts of plants. Cobbett includes annotated plant lists covering vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers extant in the Northeastern US in the 19th century. In addition to cultivation tips, he includes descriptions of potential plant uses such as eating hops as a side dish or making wine from grapes.
Newer gardeners may find Cobbett's book challenging because it mostly lacks illustrations, contemporary nomenclature and/or Latin terminology. However, Cobbett humanizes plant cultivation and encourages the new gardener with sage advice such as foiling those 'vegetable devils' dock and dandelion by eating them as greens. Although some of Cobbett's plant references are a bit archaic, such as 'Clove' or 'Cowslip', a good reference book informs the reader that the first is a type of Dianthus akin to the Carnation (sometimes called "Pinks") and the second may be what moderns call Pulmonaria.
I have find Pollen's gardening series appealing because these 'historical' books allow me step back in time and observe how "organic" gardening and gardeners carried on in earlier days. Cobett's book is set in 19th century America-the halcyon days before the onslaught of super bugs that gargle with DDT, ravaging diseases, and genetically modified Frankenstein plants brought to you by large agribusinesses that constantly battle with natural processes. William Cobbett understood that real gardeners respect Mother Nature.
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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: 0812968735 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: In the Land of the Blue Poppies : The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward by Frank Kingdon Ward, Tom Christopher, Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0812967399 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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: 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: The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Josef Capek ISBN: 0375759484 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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