The Boston Globe, June 21st, 1988
THE AMERICAN GARDENER. A Sampler, edited and with an introduction by Allen Lacy. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 368 pp. &18.95. The gardening season has brought forth a delightful gardening book by Allen Lacy, who has followed up two anthologies of his own garden essays with a collection of American gardening writing from the beginning of the 19th century to today. Although the book closes, rather curiously, by invoking the authority of the famous British gardener Vita Sackville-West, Lacy's purpose, roundly stated at the beginning, is to establish that "we do have our native gardening literature, an...
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