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"One of the commonplaces of garden history is that America lacked any significant interest in gardening during the entire Victorian era...Ms. Hill plunged into the arduous business of reading American gardening books, mostly by women, published between the Civil War and World War I. Now she comes forward with 'Grandmother's Garden: The Old-Fashioned American Garden', which is altogether convincing in its argument: America, in these years, did indeed have its indigenous gardening tradition, and a lively one at that. The book argues its thesis very well indeed, and it is extremely handsome...Hill, May Brawley is the author of 'Grandmother's Garden The Old-Fashioned American Garden, 1865-1915' with ISBN 9780810933897 and ISBN 0810933896.
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