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Onward and Upward in the Garden

Katharine White's celebrated garden columns appeared in The New Yorker between 1958 and 1970. These 14 essays, chiefly reviews of garden catalogs, are full of White's humor, intelligence, and lively critical sensibility.

French Country Garden

Traversing every region of France from Normandy and the Riviera to Picardy and the Pyrenees, a lavishly illustrated celebration of the modern French country garden categorizes depicted gardens under such headings as grandmother`s garden, gardens for the five senses, and natural. Reprint.
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The Garden Party and Other Plays

In The Garden Party, Hugo Pludek, despite his general impotence in most things, manages to surprise his parents by embarking on a successful bureaucratic career. He appropriates an absurdly relativist jargon designed to hide every element of political commitment. The result is that his parents no longer understand him, nor recognize him, and yet ultimately, they try to accept him.
The Garden Party and Other Plays
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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden

A sequel to THE WELL-TENDED PERENNIAL GARDEN, this volume tackles the subject of choosing plants to make a garden that is not only workable but interesting. With enthusiasm and expertise, Tracy DiSabato-Aust includes her take on trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vines, grasses, and bulbs, and mixes them into a variety of basic garden designs. She includes useful information on size, spacing, color theory, and the effect of light, and emphasizes the importance of pruning and other maintenance techniques essential to a lush and thriving garden. An appendix includes ideas for plant combinations
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