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The Living Garden

The 400-year History of an English Garden

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Boston
Kiadó: Houghton Mifflin Company
Kiadás helye: Boston
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 263 oldal
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 23 cm x 15 cm
ISBN: 0-395-63770-8
Megjegyzés: Fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal.
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"A brilliant book. The Living Garden is a living work of literature." - San Francisco Examiner 7! ^/xn enchanting, informative account of the fourhundred-year evolution of a garden - of the plants and animals and people who changed the balance of life on the site and were themselves changed by it. The garden, which started as a small bed of medicinal herbs, grew and developed over the centuries as twenty owners tended it, neglected it, and even abandoned it. Along the way, we pick up interesting bits of social and natural history: • In a pasture, the earthworms below ground weigh as much as the cattle above ground. • The penny that Mark Barton dropped on the lawn in 1610 is now 26 inches below the surface. • In the se.venteenth century, talking to trees was considered helpful. But because the trees were so old, the question arose as to whether to speak to them in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin. (The family settled on English.) • Poets praise the peacefulness of the garden, but in real life... Tovább

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"A brilliant book. The Living Garden is a living work of literature." - San Francisco Examiner 7! ^/xn enchanting, informative account of the fourhundred-year evolution of a garden - of the plants and animals and people who changed the balance of life on the site and were themselves changed by it. The garden, which started as a small bed of medicinal herbs, grew and developed over the centuries as twenty owners tended it, neglected it, and even abandoned it. Along the way, we pick up interesting bits of social and natural history: • In a pasture, the earthworms below ground weigh as much as the cattle above ground. • The penny that Mark Barton dropped on the lawn in 1610 is now 26 inches below the surface. • In the se.venteenth century, talking to trees was considered helpful. But because the trees were so old, the question arose as to whether to speak to them in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin. (The family settled on English.) • Poets praise the peacefulness of the garden, but in real life Wordsworth's periwinkle trailing over the primrose tuft was actually trying to throttle it. George Ordish, an English entomologist, was the author of The Living House, Vissza

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