Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What England Can Teach Us About Gardening
As to manner my pen falters at dedicating to so finished a literary man as Moses Coit Tyler a book that would probably seem to him the negation of everything literary. I have used slang, which he abhorred, and I have written like one business man to another, instead of following the classical models that I studied in college. But this is an age of new faces, other minds.
It is an age of big business, ' and the big things in gardening are generally done by successful business men. The wives may plan the gardens, but the husbands usually pay for them, and there fore I address chie?y the men - men who can give and take hard knocks good-naturedly. For you men need some straight from-the-shoulder blows. You do not love gardening enough. You gag at the cost. And you do not employ the best advisers. You may be good buyers of bonds, but not of plants. You can cut the price, but you can't get the best results that wayf What you need is to study the subject matter of gardening, which is quite as important and interesting as sport.
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