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Lawrence is one of those garden writers who bring literature, philosophy, landscape design, dirt gardening, and the voices of her friends and neighbors into the garden. Her books-- A Southern Garden, The Little Bulb s, Gardens in Winter --are enlivened by her genius for trading both plants and stories, but this one is particularly enriched by the lively notices from the Mississippi Market Bulletin, a biweekly published by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture that advertised everything from hogs to the bulbs and plants that hard-working farm women hoped to sell for 'mad' money. -- Natural History

Lawrence is one of those garden writers who bring literature, philosophy, landscape design, dirt gardening, and the voices of her friends and neighbors into the garden. Her books-- A Southern Garden, The Little Bulb s, Gardens in Winter --are enlivened by her genius for trading both plants and stories, but this one is particularly enriched by the lively notices from the Mississippi Market Bulletin, a biweekly published by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture that advertised everything from hogs to the bulbs and plants that hard-working farm women hoped to sell for 'mad' money. <br>-- Natural History

Lawrence is one of those garden writers who bring literature, philosophy, landscape design, dirt gardening, and the voices of her friends and neighbors into the garden. Her books-- A Southern Garden, The Little Bulb s, Gardens in Winter --are enlivened by her genius for trading both plants and stories, but this one is particularly enriched by the lively notices from the Mississippi Market Bulletin, a biweekly published by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture that advertised everything from hogs to the bulbs and plants that hard-working farm women hoped to sell for 'mad' money. -- Natural History

This is designed for the advanced, almost the professional gardener; or in the amateur field, the specialist interested primarily in little bulbs . The term is far more inclusive than one might think. It embraces a wide range the seasons round, from the earliest snowdrops, squills and daffodils, to hardy cyclamens, colchicum and crocuses, wood sorrels, little iris, ixias, tritonias, freesias, the lily family including such items as chiondoxia, mariposa tulips, fritellaria, hyacinth, on to trillium, wild tulips, clusiana and amaryllis - and many others whose names are much less familiar. The substance of the text is fairly technical, but it is lightened by personal experience, interchange of data on time of bloom, difficulty of culture, proper planting season, failures as well as successes. Primarily the book is based on two gardens:- Miss Lawrence's own small city backyard in North Carolina, and Mr. Krippendorf's acres of virgin forestland in southern Ohio. But in following her creed that no one can garden alone, she has drawn from gardeners from Texas to New England, she has read and written and gardened- and shared her findings with contagious enthusiasm. Final chapters tell of little bulbs indoors in pots- and sources of choice material the country over. (Kirkus Reviews)

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