Onward and Upward in the Garden

This volume collects Katharine S. White's gardening essays written for The New Yorker. She reviews seed catalogues, discusses bulbs, roses, herbs, and garden books, and reports on the Maine garden she tends through the seasons. The pieces mix practical horticulture with a reader's attention to how plants are named, sold, and described. Recurring subjects are mail-order promises, winter planning, and the gap between catalogue illustration and actual beds. The book is a set of independent essays, not a how-to manual and not a family memoir except as the garden requires it. Tone is exact and seasonal rather than rhapsodic.

Bound in green cloth, cover blocked with a red, cream and gold image. Cream endleaves. Dark green slipcase.