I've reached the point in cataloging all my books where I am adding books that have no ISBN number. I'm using an app called CLZ Books to do this. If there is a barcode on the book, it's easy to add it. I scan the barcode, wait a second for the program to find the book, then add it to my collection. For books without an ISBN number, I have to look up the book by its title or author. If someone has previously added it to their collection and uploaded that information to the cloud, the … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Grace A. Woolson
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Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Jean Hersey
I hadn't heard of Jean Hersey, our next lost lady of garden writing, until Susan M. left a comment on my post about month-by-month books suggesting I might like Jean's book, The Shape of a Year (1967). I quickly looked up this book and decided I might indeed like it. I also discovered I could get a copy through my library, so I reserved it for pick up later. Then, even though I am methodically going through all my books to catalog them and get rid of those I think I'll never read, telling … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Jean Hersey
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Bebe Miles
I spotted a copy of The Wonderful World of Bulbs by Bebe Miles (1963) at a local antique mall the other day and wondered why I'd never heard of the author. Then I picked up the book, opened it, lost my footing, so to speak, and tumbled down another rabbit hole in search of Bebe Miles, another Lost Lady of Garden Writing. I read her official author biography on the cover of her book so I know that Bebe was "a resident of Wayne, Pennsylvania, is a free-lance writer who loves to garden." … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Bebe Miles
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Josephine Nuese
In January, a popular garden meme makes its way around the internet with a quote that may or may not be attributed to its author, Josephine Nuese, my next featured Lost Lady of Garden Writing. The familiar quote is, "Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. For gardening begins in January, begins with the dream." Gardeners trot that quote out every January as though it was a decoration of the season and post it … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Josephine Nuese
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Mildred Luedy
In my stack of Christmas-y gardening books is a slim book, The Christmas Rose, written and published in 1948 by Arthur E. and Mildred V. Luedy. 'Tis the season for Mildred to be my latest lost lady of garden writing. In the foreward, Mildred and Arthur wrote, "The authors have set down herein some of their experiences in growing The Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger altifolius, over the past quarter century, in the hope that some who may not have known this most enchanting flower … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Mildred Luedy
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Lizzie Page Hillhouse
I recently received a box of old gardening books that someone offered me, knowing that I've often claimed my library is a sanctuary for old gardening books. The last book I pulled out of the box was House Plants and How to Succeed With Them by Lizzie Page Hillhouse (A.T. de la Mare Ptg. and Pub. Col. Ltd., 1897). There I stood between two rabbit holes—how did they tend house plants 125 years ago and who is Lizzie Page Hillhouse? Lizzie is another Lost Lady of Garden Writing. Like … [Read more...] about Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Lizzie Page Hillhouse
