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Article: Rock rage.(Book Review)
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- New Criterion
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- October 1, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Nicola Shulman A Rage for Rock Gardening: The story of Reginald Farrer. Beacon Press, 209 pages, $23
Reviewers of books do not normally begin by praising the publisher, but in this case David R. Godine's commitment to bringing out a line of garden books no longer in print and new volumes about the near-forgotten greats of garden writing should be applauded. Serious garden literature occupies that small corner of the bookshelf not taken up by practical books on gardening, which have in recent years enjoyed a market boom analogous to that of cookbooks. Godine's list is aimed at the reader who is interested in the lives and works of gardeners and garden writers of the past, ...
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