The Potting-Shed Papers; From Johnny Appleseed's Apples to Sex and the Single Strawberry--Explorations of Gardens and Gardeners

by Charles Elliott

• ISBN13: 9781585745401
• ISBN10: 1585745405
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

A collection of delightful essays on gardening by America's favorite expatriate author.

Author Biography

Charles Elliott is an American editor and writer who now lives and gardens in Britain. He has written The Transplanted Gardener and A Gap in the Hedge as well as edited The Quotable Gardener, The Quotable Cat Lover, The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told, and the forthcoming The Greatest Treasure-Hunting Stories Ever Told

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. IX
Personal Considerations
Laid to Lawn	p. 3
Gardening Books	p. 7
Names	p. 13
On Keeping Track	p. 20
Machines	p. 26
Looking Back
An American Tree in London	p. 35
Sex and the Single Strawberry	p. 41
Appleseed's Seedlings	p. 48
"The Most Interesting Plant in North America"	p. 54
The Fever Bark Tree	p. 61
The Chelsea Physic Garden	p. 68
Dr. Ward's Boxes	p. 75
Big Trees	p. 81
The Vegetable Patch	p. 87
Birds in the Garden	p. 93
Tree Peonies	p. 100
The Quaker Axis	p. 107
The Great Mulberry Bubble	p. 113
Modern Times
Good Bugs	p. 123
The Ingurishu Gaaden	p. 129
Allotments	p. 135
Fire or Ice?	p. 142
Boskoop	p. 147
Plantspeople
Cherry Ingram	p. 155
Roy Lancaster	p. 161
Plagiarism and Jacques Wirtz	p. 169
Liberty Hyde Bailey	p. 179
The Raspberry Man	p. 186
Henry Ward Beecher	p. 192
James Logan and His Corncob Lab	p. 198
Pere Delavay	p. 205
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