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From Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985 - 1988, by Gary Indiana

SOLD

"The fate of many plants sold at the flower show must certainly resemble that of those hapless baby alligators who died slow, painful deaths in terrariums of Florida tourists in the '50s."

From March 24, 1987 Triumph of the Cute

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From Sunlight On the Lawn, by Beverley Nichols

THERE

"And there I met a certain flower, and fell in love, and was lost, and the whole of life was changed."

From Chapter VI, The Good Earth

Brad's Garden Show Recommendations

Brad recommends:

Sissinghurst: Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden, by Vita Sackville-West and Sarah Raven, ISBN# 9781250060051, $34.99, from St. Martin's Press.

The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Walk, by Kathryn Aalto, ISBN# 9781604695991, $24.95, from Timber Press.

Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, by Marta McDowell, ISBN# 9781604693638, $24.95, from Timber Press.

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From My Summer in a Garden, by Charles Dudley Warner

AS I DO NOT

"As I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden, -- name things as I find them."

From Third Week