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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100812967380
ISBN-139780812967388
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317126
Product Key Features
Book TitleOld Herbaceous : a Novel of the Garden
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicClassics, Literary, Historical, Humorous / General
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorReginald Arkell
Book SeriesModern Library Gardening Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight5.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-041089
Reviews"A delightful story . . . its seriousness dispelled by Arkell's mischievous sense of humor." -from the Introduction by Penelope Hobhouse
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal823/.912
SynopsisBack in print after fifty years Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse's immortal butler, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts." Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal--and crotchety--head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house. This Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Penelope Hobhouse, a renowned garden designer and lecturer and the author of numerous gardening books.
LC Classification NumberPR6001.R5O47 2003
