Beautiful MadnessDuring a year of living botanically, Dodson goes behind the scenes of the world's two most important garden shows, spends time with the Botticelli of Bulbs, meets a man smuggling exotic day lilies, and hangs out with three of the most accomplished gardening fanatics on earth. |
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Page 144
... tour with Adams . He confided to his journal afterward that " the gardens in that country surpass all the earth . " His tour of the Blessed Isle in the spring of 1786 , as it happened , couldn't have come at a more fertile moment in the ...
... tour with Adams . He confided to his journal afterward that " the gardens in that country surpass all the earth . " His tour of the Blessed Isle in the spring of 1786 , as it happened , couldn't have come at a more fertile moment in the ...
Page 148
... tour of the famous white - domed house , at least my fifth or sixth tour of the premises , and listened to the young female guide drone somewhat blandly on about Uncle Tom's love of experimental gadgets and expensive scientific geegaws ...
... tour of the famous white - domed house , at least my fifth or sixth tour of the premises , and listened to the young female guide drone somewhat blandly on about Uncle Tom's love of experimental gadgets and expensive scientific geegaws ...
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... tour companion , John Adams also passed away . On a bleak January day six months later , all of Jefferson's worldly possessions plus " 130 valuable negroes " were auctioned off and carried away by the highest bidders . The auction ...
... tour companion , John Adams also passed away . On a bleak January day six months later , all of Jefferson's worldly possessions plus " 130 valuable negroes " were auctioned off and carried away by the highest bidders . The auction ...
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