GreenPrints E5, Spring 1991

Although this out-of-print issue is now 20 years old, it still ranks as one of my absolute all-time favorites. I love the cover. “My Ninety Acres” (all 16 pages of it) might be my favorite all-time GreenPrints story: Such love! Such heart! And the two-page illustration for it (pp.32-33) . . . immortal! And there’s so much more: Karel Capek, “Angel of Mercy,” the garden-veggie-eating dog, Ferguson, etc. I truly love this issue. Hope you do, too! — Pat Stone, Editor

CONTENTS

Real Rock Gardening:
Oh, joy! Springtime! Time to harvest the rock crop!

Angel of Mercy
She offered to plant vegetable gardens--free of charge.

The Divine Peony:
A flower of antiquity (and refrigerated ants) visits the cemetery.

On the Art of Gardening
Spring bursts forth in joyous prose..

My Ninety Acres
A classic 1943 love story by Louis Bromfield.

Springtime in the Crawlspace
A day just right for digging in the soil, for watching things grow, and for--what's that, dear?

Elisabeth Woodburn
A tribute to the woman once called "The Library of Congress of Gardening."

Ferguson in the Garden:
The dog with vinaigrette on his breath.

AND MORE!

. . . such as . . .

People who spend their lives walking on uncommunicative pavements and looking about them at blocks of flats, shops, villas and offices are unable to realize that the soil blooms in spring just as do plants and trees.

--British agriculturist H.J. Massingham (1942)