My Summer in a Garden
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My Summer in a Garden
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Oft quoted but seldom credited,Charles Dudley Warner’s My Summer in a Garden is a classic of American garden writing and was a seminal... read full description

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Sep 21, 2008
Christina rated it: 4 of 5 stars
My OH son gave me this little book as he knows me well in this realm of reading about gardening. Charles Dudley Warner, a 19th cent. journalist writes about much more than nicotiana: "The garden thus becomes a moral agent, a test of character, as it was in the beginning". Ah, so.
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Nov 14, 2010
Summer rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I have found a kindred spirit in Charles Dudley Warner. The bad news is that he has been dead for 100 years like most of my literary kindred spirits. The good news is that he was a close friend of Mark Twain which means maybe I would have been as well if circumstances had allowed. This funny collection of essays hooked me from the first paragraph: "The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as w More...
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Jun 20, 2009
Heidi rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Late 1800's take on gardenng...some things don't change much! Really enjoyed the authors commentary and could not resist reading passages out loud to whichever unfortunate family member happened to be in the room at the time. Bless 'em, they thought it was funny too.
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Oct 06, 2011
Soapykitty rated it: 1 of 5 stars
I love to garden so I thought I would love this book.I didn't and I was pretty much falling asleep whenever I started to read it.
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Aug 29, 2011
Pat rated it: 5 of 5 stars
Delightful.
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May 19, 2010
Belinda rated it: 3 of 5 stars
This is a charming and humourous book about life in the early 1900's. It's really quite irresistable, once you get into it.
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Jun 14, 2011
Jan rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Purslane, which he calls pursley, a problem then, a problem now.
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Oct 23, 2007
Sarah rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I picked this up in part because Michael Pollan is the series editor. The essays were orginally written as chatty newspaper gardening columns, and that makes this a good piecemeal read. The language is not modern, but is very accessible despite the age of the pieces, and exudes a quaint literary patina.
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Jan 20, 2012
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