GREEN PENS. A Collection of Garden Writing.
Melbourne, Published by The Miegunyah Press. 2004. Royal 8vo, pp,x + 275 with black & white illustrations.Hard cover in pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy.
Signed by all three editors on the title page. Item #196649
'A collection of Australian writing on gardening, including excerpts from diaries and letters, newspapers and magazines, nursery catalogues, planting guides, and novels and poems. : "Within this book you will find descriptions of the very earliest gardens Europeans planted in Australia, diary entries which detail the daily work involved in maintaining a garden, witty musings on marital tiffs about the garden, and heartbreaking accounts of tragedies which occurred or were remembered there."
Price: $40.00