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*This copy is in very good condition. The pages are intact and clean, the cover is in good condition without tears but with some rubbing along the creases at the spine, but it is solid. It was taken very good care of. Also included are a handful of newspaper and magazine clippings about gardening from the Oregonian and Sunset Magazine, spanning several decades.
Excerpt from the Acknowledgments page:
This book acknowledges the first period of the coming of age of Western gardening. Comparatively speaking, Western gardening is very young. We point with genuine awe at 50 to 70 year old Western gardens while the gardeners in England and Europe and Asia are working in 300 and 500 year old gardens.
Yet in one man's lifetime we have gathered from all over the world a greater variety of plants than have ever been cultivated in any other one section of the world. Westerners are gardening in more than a dozen different subclimates. In many of these subclimates the plantings of collected material are less than 10 years old, some are in their 30th and 40th year, a few are 90 years old.
How will each plant grow in each subclimate? We will know right answers in another hundred years.
But we garden today.
Our plan for this book said that we would collect observations from every corner of the West and check them, correct them, and put them in their true perspective.
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