[]
Onward and Upward in the Garden
  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781590178508
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $49.99

Onward and Upward in the Garden

Formats & editions
EBook
17 Mar 2015
Paperback
15 Apr 2015
Buy from…
The Nile Mighty Ape BookHub Whitcoulls The Warehouse Paper Plus Fishpond Book Hero Unity Books University Book Shop Find Local Retailers

Written by The New Yorker's first fiction editor, these beautiful, highly readable essays on gardening were first collected by E. B White and are sure to please gardeners as well as the uninitiated.

In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for The New Yorker. Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor, discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike, James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, The New Yorker ran a column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams that gardens inspire.
  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781590178508
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 392
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

Also by E B White

Charlotte's Web
The Trumpet of the Swan
Charlotte's Web
The Elements of Style Illustrated
Here is New York
Charlotte's Web Anniversary Cd
The Fun of It
See all

Praise for Onward and Upward in the Garden

"Her writing is so wonderfully clear, so intimate. . .she leaves you wanting to know her thoughts of every aspect of the garden." --Jamaica Kincaid

"Onward and Upward in the Garden is quite a bit more than a book about flowers. It is itself a bouquet, the final blooming of an extraordinary sensibility." --The New York Times

"[This collection] can be savored by the reader whose closest acquaintance with nature is the corner florist. It is a heady compost of observation, taste, wit, and scholarship." --Time

"You don't have to be a gardener to love this collection of essays. White observes that a talent for the soil and a taste for writing and editorializing often go together, and she proves it--creating her own distinctive voice in the process." --Newsweek

"Quite a bit more than a book about flowers, it is itself a bouquet, the final blooming of an extraordinary sensibility." --The New York Times

"A special joy for persons of cultivation, be they connoisseurs of grandiflora or mere backyard tomato growers." --Chicago Sun-Times