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Onward and upward in the garden / Katharine S. White ; edited, and with an introduction by. E. B. White.
LIBRA - Special SB453 .W45
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardening--Book reviews.
- Gardening.
- Seeds--Catalogs--Book reviews.
- Seeds.
- Seeds--Catalogs.
- Nursery stock--Catalogs--Book reviews.
- Nursery stock.
- Nursery stock--Catalogs.
- Gardens--Book reviews.
- Gardens.
- Flower arrangement--Book reviews.
- Flower arrangement.
- Genre:
- Book reviews.
- Catalogs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 361 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, [1979]
- Contents:
- A romp in the catalogues
- Floricordially yours
- Before the frost
- The changing rose, the enduring cabbage
- War in the borders, peace in the shrubbery
- Green thoughts in a green shade
- Fro the recreation & delight of the inhabitants
- An idea which we have called nature
- The million-dollar book
- The flower arrangers
- More about the arrangers
- Winter reading, winter dreams
- Winterthur and winter book fare
- Knots and arbours-and books.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Cyntha Krupat."
- "Text ... originally appeared in the New Yorker."
- "Some of the nurserymen and seedsmen mentioned in these pages have since changed their place of business. Other have altered their way of doing business or changed their product. A few have disappeared from the scene. For the reader's convenience, two lists have been provided at the end of the book. One shows the present status of firms mentioned in the text; the other indicates which books are still in print."--A Note to the Reader.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-[362]).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.
- Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Malgieri Collection copy is "Fifth printing, 1979".
- ISBN:
- 0374226547 :
- OCLC:
- 4776434
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