Excerpt from Gardening With Brains: Fifty Years Experiences of a Horticultural Epicure
Why another book on gardening? You might as well ask, "Why write a historic novel when there are so many histories giving all the facts?" There are plenty of garden books giving all the facts - for reference. But this book is for consecutive reading. The important facts are here, too, but sugar-coated with wise and witty remarks and spiced with anecdotes and other things that suggest the perfumed atmosphere of the garden and appeal to the garden maniac.
The world's most famous gardener, Luther Burbank, wrote to the author of this book that its chapters are, in his opinion, "the best that have so far been written on garden subjects. You get at the facts in such a pleasing, human way that they are irresistible. Your articles suggest to me the difference between living, moving, growing plant life and the dead, dry, flat specimens which one sees in herbariums."
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