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Highlights
- Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves.
- About the Author: Reginald Arkell (1872-1959) wrote many musical plays for the London theater, the most popular of which was 1066 and All That.
- 176 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Humorous
- Series Name: Modern Library Gardening
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About the Book
Out of print since 1951, "Old Herbaceous" is a classic of British gardening literature, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as the butler Jeeves.Book Synopsis
Back in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts." Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal--and crotchety--head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house. This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction byPenelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.
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"A delightful story . . . its seriousness dispelled by Arkell's mischievous sense of humor." --from the Introduction by Penelope Hobhouse
About the Author
Reginald Arkell (1872-1959) wrote many musical plays for the London theater, the most popular of which was 1066 and All That. He was the author of A Cottage in the Country and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. Michael Pollan is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Botany of Desire (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks) and Second Nature, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to Harper's magazine and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.Dimensions (Overall): 8.04 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x .41 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Modern Library Gardening
Sub-Genre: Humorous
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 176
Publisher: Modern Library
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Reginald Arkell
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 2003
TCIN: 1002818285
UPC: 9780812967388
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-2053
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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