Re: book awards

**C* U* <c*@gmail.com>**

Here is the press release from the AHS regarding their book awards. It  
seems like a distinguished list with distinguished judges as well.  
Cathy Jean Maloney is a senior writer with Chicagoland Gardening  
magazine, by the way, and the author of several books on garden  
history, so as her editor, I'm naturally biased in her favor.

Carolyn Ulrich
2013 Garden Book Awards Announced By

The American Horticultural Society

Alexandria, VA (March 21, 2013). Each year, the American Horticultural  
Society (AHS) recognizes outstanding gardening books published in  
North America with its annual Book Award. Books are judged by the AHS  
Book Award Committee on qualities such as writing style, authority,  
originality, accuracy, and design quality. This year’s six recipients,  
published in 2012, are:

       The California Wildlife Habitat Garden by Nancy Bauer  
(University of California Press)

       A Guide to Bearded Irises by Kelly D. Norris (Timber Press)

        The Organic Seed Grower by John Navazio (Chelsea Green  
Publishing)

	 “A Rich Spot of Earth” by Peter J. Hatch (Yale University Publishing  
and Thomas Jefferson Foundation)

       The Seed Underground by Janisse Ray (Chelsea Green Publishing)

       World’s Fair Gardens by Cathy Jean Maloney (University of  
Virginia Press)

The 2013 Book Award Committee was chaired by Susan Appleget Hurst, a  
garden communicator in Winterset, Iowa. Other committee members were  
Brandy Kuhl, head librarian at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of  
Horticulture in San Francisco, California; Kathy LaLiberte, Vermont- 
based marketing consultant and garden writer previously with  
Gardener’s Supply; Rand B. Lee, a freelance writer and editor  
specializing in Southwest gardening, plant history, and cottage garden  
design; W. Gary Smith, an award-winning garden designer and author in  
Toronto, Canada; Greg Williams, producer of HortIdeas newsletter in  
Gravel Switch, Kentucky; and Marty Wingate, a garden writer and  
speaker based in Seattle, Washington.

The 2013 Book Awards will be presented on Thursday, June 6 during the  
Great American Gardeners Awards Ceremony and Banquet at River Farm,  
the AHS’s national headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. For more  
information about the awards, visit www.ahs.org/awards.

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