Gardening: A Gardener's Dictionary
by Henry Beard, Roy McKie | Humor | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780894802003 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780894802003 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
I got this softcover from Better World Books. It's a humorous look at gardening, or "a dictionary for weedpullers, slugcrushers and backyard botanists". Some of the humor fell flat for me, but I did enjoy many tidbits, such as:
"Seed: Costly, but highly nutritious form of bird food sold in handsome packets printed with colorful pictures of flowers or vegetables."
"Grape: uninteresting larval stage of wine."
"Lily of the Field: Attractive, unemployed, non-textile-producing flower." **
** "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin..."
"Seed: Costly, but highly nutritious form of bird food sold in handsome packets printed with colorful pictures of flowers or vegetables."
"Grape: uninteresting larval stage of wine."
"Lily of the Field: Attractive, unemployed, non-textile-producing flower." **
** "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin..."
Journal Entry 2 by 
GoryDetails
at Conservation Area (See Notes) in Litchfield, New Hampshire USA on Friday, April 23, 2021
GoryDetails at Conservation Area (See Notes) in Litchfield, New Hampshire USA on Friday, April 23, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (4/23/2021 UTC) at Conservation Area (See Notes) in Litchfield, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Guidelines for safely visiting and stocking Little Free Libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic, from the LFL site here.I plan to leave this book at the information kiosk of Moore's Falls Conservation Area at 530 Charles Bancroft Hwy; hope someone enjoys it!
[See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2021 April Showers/May Flowers challenge. ***
*** Released for the 20 Years of BookCrossing challenge. ***
Picked up this book with my son at the entrance of Moore's Falls Conservation Area in Litchfield, NH.
