For a couple decades the luckiest gardeners in the nation were those who subscribed to the Washington Post. At the time when most garden writing was lethally dull and as impersonal as a committee report, Henry Mitchell was the great exception. Many of his readers clipped and saved his columns. Henry Mitchell was the best garden writer in America, but he was more than that. He was a master essayist. From the introduction by Allen Lacy.
