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 …
Ida D. Bennett
I bought “The Flower Garden” by Ida D. Bennett on impulse from a bookseller who had set up shop for the weekend at the local mall. It was one of three old gardening books I bought that day, nearly …
Ida D. Bennett: The Vegetable Garden – Scared or Seduced
I'm still thinking about books by Ida D. Bennett. In addition to The Flower Garden (1903, 1910), she also wrote a book called The Vegetable Garden (1909). Even though I don't own this particular …
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Odds and Ends About Tools From Ida D. Bennett
I'm still plowing through the pages of The Flower Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Gardener by Ida D. Bennett (1910) and like a gardener who has stumbled across something while hoeing and stops to see …
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More 100 Year Old Advice from Ida D. Bennett
I've been continuing to read bits and pieces of The Flower Garden by Ida D. Bennett, published in 1910. After I posted Bennett's seed buying advice, the genealogy detective gardener, Annie in Austin, …
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100 Year Old Seed Buying Warnings For Today
Gather round. The fire is slowing burning down, the last embers fading, leaving just enough light for me to make out the writing in an old gardening book, The Flower Garden – A Manual for the Amateur …
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