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Making Things Grow Indoors pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
INTRODUCTION<br > NOT LONG AGO a distinguished horticulturist asked me where I had<br > been trained. Taken by surprise, I answered that I had not had any<br > professional training, for my work had been in archaeology. Now I<br > think I gave the wrong answer. I may not have taken nay degree in<br > horticultural affairs, but, as I look back, I realize I had a vigorous and<br > thorough apprenticeship at the hands of my innumerable gardening<br > relatives.<br > Like many English people of my generation, I grew up taking<br > gardens and gardening for granted. But just as some families were<br > consistently church-oriented, and others interested in scientific mat-<br > ters, my family had always been scholars and gardeners with equal<br > emphasis on both pursuits. I do, in fact, possess a fund of stories that<br > deal with the gardening activities of my kin, many of whom I, of<br > course, never knew. But my own experiences add up to quite a collec-<br > tion in themselves. As a small child I was forced by my grandmother to<br > sit beside her for several mornings one summer watching the garden-<br > ers toil over an enormous bed that stretched the entire length of the<br > croquet lawn. She had been away, fetching me for a visit, when the<br > head gardener had planted it in the curves, ribbons, and blocks of<br > bedded-out annual plants then in vogue. On her return, she disap-<br > proved of the way it had been done, and we sat there supervising the<br > men as they reset every single plant (and there must have been<br > thousands of them) into a pattern that pleased her more. My presence<br > was required because Grandmama wanted me to understand why the<br > changes were being made. She was enormously ahead of her time in<br > realizing that blocks of a single color look best massed together.<br >
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Making Things Grow Indoors pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024