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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell
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Gardening -- Book reviews.
Seeds -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Nursery stock -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Gardens -- Book reviews.
Flower arrangement -- Book reviews.
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White, Katharine Sergeant Angell
Gardening -- Book reviews.
Seeds -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Nursery stock -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Gardens -- Book reviews.
Flower arrangement -- Book reviews.
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Onward
and
upward
in the
garden
/ Katharine S. White ; edited and with an introduction by E.B. White.
by
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell
New York Review Books, NYRB, 2015.
Call #:
635.0216 W585o
Subjects
Gardening -- Book reviews.
Seeds -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Nursery stock -- Catalogs -- Book reviews.
Gardens -- Book reviews.
Flower arrangement -- Book reviews.
Series
New York Review Books classics.
ISBN:
9781590178508 (pbk.)
1590178505 (pbk.)
Description:
xix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, copyright 1979.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-362).
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 -- For 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 -- Seedsmen and nurserymen.
Summary:
In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine's first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre:
garden
writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled "
Onward
and
Upward
in the
Garden
," a critical review of
garden
catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of "seedmen and nurserymen," those unsung authors who produced her "favorite reading matter." Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and
garden
writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
Other authors:
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
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