Article: Garden heirlooms: Three champions of history's bygone flowers and vegetables find reasons to hope--and ways to keep these imperiled treasures from disappearing. (Roundtable).

At the New York Botanical Garden's Edith A. Haupt Conservatory, Editor in Chief PEGGY KENNEDY shores tea and talk with three outspoken plant preservationists. CHRISTIE WHITE, the project coordinator for horticulture at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, specializes in all aspects of nineteenth-century vernacular gardens. AMY GOLDMAN, author of the newly published "Melons, For the Passionate Grower" (Artisan), is committed to collecting rare and heirloom vegetables, and serves on the board of the NYBG, the Seed Savers Exchange and the Land Institute. And Victoria's garden editor, TOVAH MARTIN, is the author of numerous books, including "A Time to Blossom: Mothers, ...

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