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Item Details
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GAP IN THE HEDGE
DISPATCHES F |
| By: |
Charles Elliott |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£18.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1558216804 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781558216808 |
| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1998 |
| Edition: |
First ed. |
| Pages: |
214 |
| Description: |
A fresh crop of Elliott's pungent, funny, and unpredictable essays from "the world's greatest potting shed", Great Britain. "When it comes to gardening, the English don't speak the same language as Americans. At last we have a translator".--"The Boston Globe". |
| Synopsis: |
A Gap in the Hedge explores British gardening past and present, as well as some of the odder byways into which a love of plants and gardens has led us. There are accounts of such great plant-hunters as Reginald Farrer and Joseph Rock, master gardeners like Ellen Willmott and Canon Ellacombe, and the undeservedly obscure scientist Jagadis Chunder Bose, whose improbable specialty was research into the emotions of plants. Here too are essays on the difference between gardening and groundskeeping, topiary, mistletoe, orchids, waterlilies, the history of hoses, and much more. Altogether, The Gap in the Hedge is a rich and vastly amusing assembly destined to please anyone interested in Britain, in gardening, or simply in human nature at its least commonplace. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The Lyons Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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