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Gardeners disagree about many things'cannas, double petunias, the color magenta'but on one subject they are unanimous. Henry Mitchell was simply the best garden writer this country has ever produced. As Allen Lacy writes in his introduction to this, the final collection of Mitchell's gardening essays, 'In a time when most garden writing was lethally dull and as impersonal as a committee report, Henry Mitchell was the great exception. He was often...
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This "wonderful" essay collection from the former Washington Post columnist and author of The Essential Earthman (Horticulture) offers a harvest of sharp observations and humorous adventures gathered during a year in the garden, along with much down-to-earth advice.