{"id":1189,"date":"2019-06-18T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:07:52","slug":"into-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/into-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Into <\/u>The Garden<\/u><\/p>\n

Ah, spring! Time to get your hands dirty messing about in the garden. Or, just to read about gardens – no one\u2019s judging! \u00a0Either way, we\u2019ve got you covered. This month\u2019s book display features books to inspire and advise in the actual hands-on garden (how about\u00a0Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn<\/em>, or\u00a0Practical Botany for Gardeners<\/em>); books about gardening (perhaps\u00a0Envisioning the Garden: Line, Scale, Distance, Form, Color, and Meaning<\/em>); city farms (Farm City: The Education of a City Farmer<\/em>, or how about\u00a0The Vertical Farm<\/em>); and urban sustainability (Agriculture in Urban Planning<\/em>, or\u00a0The Art of Building a Garden City<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Or maybe you want to let your mind wander the garden without getting your hands dirty. We\u2019ve got all kinds of options for you! Gardens literary (The Quest for Shakespeare\u2019s Garden<\/em>, maybe, or\u00a0Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens<\/em>); historical (Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture<\/em>, or\u00a0On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth Century England and France<\/em>); and biographical (The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World\u2019s Greatest Garden\u00a0<\/em>or Vita Sackville-West\u2019s\u00a0Garden Book<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s fiction and poetry, too! \u2013 we could go on and on! So drop by to borrow a book and then head out into the garden to read it.<\/p>\n

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