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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. xiii, 592 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 0395480086; 9780395480083 LCCN: 89-34223 ; OCLC: 19778153gray and black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; traces members of the West Point class of 1966 ; crease on page 590 ; covers dusty, else G/VG ; Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st ed.], 1st printing ; x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780395633199, 0395633192 ; OCLC 25788488 ; LCCn 92011090 ; LOC no SB455 .M57 1992 ; Dewey 635 ; "The material in this volume originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the Washington post"--T.p. verso. ; Includes index. ; vanilla and white cloth in color pictorial dustjacket; Henry Mitchell, who died in November 1993, was one of America's most beloved garden writers. A man of contradictions, Mitchell built landing platforms for dragonflies after seeing one drown in his pool and never stepped on an ant intentionally. He also railed mightily at fools and the elements. This is his last book--adapted from his weekly "Earthman" columns in the Washington Post. ; name on front endpaper ; slight foxing ; two nicks on dustjacket ; Contents: JANUARY -- Names from the Garden's Guest Book -- Architecture to Make the Garden Glow -- Oops! There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant -- Maintaining Your Garden and Maintaining Your Sanity -- Tomato or Tomahto: Tips on Types to Plant -- Sowing Beauty in Beastly Surroundings -- The Gardener's Lot -- FEBRUARY -- Sowing Seeds Indoors, and Other Poppycock -- The Imperfect Gardener -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Happy Returns -- The Cypress, Belle of the Bald -- A Screen of Shrubs -- Timing Is the Key -- MARCH -- Year-Long Lessons -- Days of Magic -- The Thin Line Between Nature and Human Nature -- Tracing the Roots -- A Word about Worts -- Forgotten Seeds, Surprising Sprouts -- The Simple Secret -- Magnificent Obsessions -- APRIL -- Flowering Fruit Trees -- Celestial Bamboo -- What Goes On under the Apple Tree -- In Mr. Jefferson's Garden -- Glorious Flocks of April Phlox -- Letting Nature Take Its Course -- Discovering Bulbs -- How the Garden Grows and Grows -- MAY -- Staying in the Pink -- Gone But Not Forgotten -- Agave, the Can-Do Plant -- The Lilacs That Bloom in the Spring -- Chip Off the Old Bush -- Garden Pests Don't Bug Me -- The Beauties of the Black Locust -- Keeping Envy Out of Your Eden -- JUNE -- Tea Roses: The Secrets of Success -- The Right -- Bedfellows for Roses -- I Try Not to Do Stupid Things -- Foliage for Nooks and Crannies -- Daylilies by the Bouquetful -- Small Gardens: The Big Picture -- The Grand and Noble Magnolia -- JULY -- A Home for Fish and Flowers -- A Water Lily's Lust for Life -- A Word about Petunias -- Plants That Need Wet Nursing -- Madame Galen -- For Dragonflies, a Place to Rest Their Wings -- The Lessons Never Learned -- The Perfect Order of a Bulb Garden -- AUGUST -- A Bulb I Can't Resist -- Beauty or Black-Eyed Susans -- Tomatoes of Good Breeding -- Cleome for Summer Heat -- Birds and a Few Beasts -- A Single Sunflower -- Uprooted by Nature's Plans -- SEPTEMBER -- Felicitous Flowers for Early Fall -- On Oddments and Changelings -- Divide and Multiply -- No Dallying with Dahlias -- In Some Gardens, Only the Shadow Grows -- The Common Splendor of Barberry -- Before You Bring In the Plants, Make Sure Your Rugs Are Clean -- OCTOBER -- Room with a View -- Squills of Delight -- A Change of Place Has Its Price -- The Leaves of Autumn -- Sometimes Things Just Do Not Go Well -- Old Duties Before Breaking New Ground -- When Houseplants Take Over -- NOVEMBER -- Turning Over a New Leaf -- High Crimes Against a Rambling Rose -- The Vine of Subtle Pleasures -- Cues for Minding Your Peas -- In for the Winter -- Not a Monument, Just a Garden -- Go with the Seasonal Flow -- A Gardener's Thanksgiving -- DECEMBER -- Where Have All the Poppies Gone? -- Turn Down the Noise -- Yewing and Strewing -- Bananas -- Happiness Is a Hummingbird -- A Good Time for Pleasant Chores -- Singular Sensations -- Nights When the Chickens Sing -- Gifts for the Gardener ; G/VG. Book.