I recently purchased a new-to-me book on entomology, "Our Insect Friends and Foes" by William Atherton DuPuy (The John C. Winston Company, 1925). It is part of a Romance of Science series of …
Book Review: Grow the Good Life
Oh, the angst! I put down the book and looked out the window. Still winter! I checked the calendar. Still winter! I picked up the book again and continued reading. I put it down again and gazed …
“There ain’t no such animule”
In The Busy Woman's Garden Book by Ida D. Bennett (Small, Maynard & Company, 1920), Bennett included chapters on groups of vegetables including early spring vegetables, mid-season vegetables, …
Knight’s Star Lily Cultivation According to Dreer’s Hints on the Growing of Bulbs
Hippeastrum 'Ambiance' Quickly now, do you know another common name for Amaryllis also known as Hippeastrum? Did you just answer Knight's Star Lily? Correct! How did you know that? I didn't know …
Lure of the Vegetable Garden
Lure of the Vegetable Garden (New York Times, July 11, 1908) "The last word in vegetable gardening has surely been said by Miss Ida D. Bennett in her book, "The Vegetable Garden," (the McClure …
Further Down In The Rabbit Hole
Down, down, down, I ventured into the rabbit hole. One search led to another, as I typed in terms like “Ida D. Bennett” and “Ida Dandridge Bennett”. Along the way, I encountered Annie in Austin, who …
