Re: another garden magazine ceases

**"Peter Loewer" t*@earthlink.net**

GWL: "Organic Gardening" still exists, tho' thin and dismal. Daughter Maria,
succeeded in pretty well destroying the magazine by turing it into a kind of
"let's all help the swell people garden!" Peter Loewer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:06 PM
Subject: RE: [GWL] another garden magazine ceases


> Loosing those magazines is very sad. I am worried about Organic Gardening.
> I have not seen it for months.  Is it still in publication?
> Jeff Ball
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:21 PM
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [GWL] another garden magazine ceases
>
>
> I have just been notified by White Flower Farm that they are ceasing
> publication of magazine The Gardener.
>
> The Gardener, edited by Tom Cooper, formerly of Horticulture magazine,
began
> with the April/May 2001 issue, 35 pages, subscription price $24, offset by
> $20 credit against plant and supplies purchases. It was published "with no
> advertising and filled with illustrations instead of photographs". The
note
> to readers in the latest issue Feb/Mar 2003) asks "Could a publication
> survive without the support of ads; could it do its job without the help
of
> sumptuous color photographs?" and answers yes.
>
> Does anyone know, or want to speculate about the reason/s for its demise?
>
> This follows the cessation of Flower & Garden as of July 2002 issue, which
> contained ads and color photographs, and seemed to have a large number of
> subscribers.
>
> Sally
>
> Sally Williams
> Editor and publisher
> Garden Literature: An Index to Periodical Articles and Book Reviews
> Garden Literature Press
> 398 Columbus Ave, No 181
> Boston MA 02116
> tel/fax 617 424 1784
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