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Onward and Upward in the Garden
Onward and Upward in the Garden | Katherine S. White
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In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazines 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.
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Aimeesue
Onward and Upward in the Garden | Katherine S. White
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Thanks for the tag @TheBookStacker

1. Oh, so hard. You don't even know. Unless they're MLs with Blumenthal bindings. They get a free pass.
2. Went hunting NYRB, ML, and Europa Editions at Riverby Books today.
3. NYT, WashPo, BBC, The Guardian, NPR, and Al Jezeera
4. I get up immediately
5. @jillrhudy

#friYAYiintro
@4thhouseontheleft @howjessreads

jillrhudy Is there a Saturyay? 4y
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quietjenn
Onward and Upward in the Garden | Katherine S. White
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I keep thinking that I'll take this outside and find some flowers to take a pic of it with, but I'm almost finished and that hasn't happened, so *shrug*. It's been my before bed reading for a while now. I'm so not a gardener, but I 💚 reading gardening books.

Mdargusch Pretty photo though! 🌺🌸🌼 6y
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RowReads1
Onward and Upward in the Garden | Katherine S. White
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Tamra Beautiful! 7y
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Jess_Read_This
Onward and Upward in the Garden | Katherine S. White
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My contribution to #gardentitle. My vintage copy of Jenkins' Around the Garden is a special one. I often wished someone could tell me what I was supposed to be doing in the yard every month; Jenkins does that in her book. Litsy doesn't have it available as a option yet- but I recommend it. 💐🌻🌱🌸🌷

#AprilBookShowers #gardening #greenthumb #vintage #vintagebooks #aroundthegarden #plantit #growit #nature