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Book Review of The Gardener's Bed-Book : Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things (Modern Library Gardening)

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A gentle and thorhoougly enjoyable book by a man of wit, reading, and creativity. Kudos to those responsible for getting this back into print. Divided up for a reading each day of the year with one longer piece each month, the book gives perfect snippets of thought that lead you to think beyond them, provide a welcome chuckle, and offer the camaraderie of gardeners across the years. Although the original was written long before I was born, I found myself thinking how nice it would have been had Richardson Wright been a neighbor with whom I could swap cuttings and stories over the back fence.