Re: Henry Mitchell Syndicated
- Subject: Re: Henry Mitchell Syndicated
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:05:25 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/02 10:31:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com
writes:
<< Wouldn't that be great, Clair? Allen Lacy took up Mitchell's gauntlet for
a
good run in the WSJ (I think it was), but I guess they decided that wasn't
for them any longer either. >>
Well Bill, I had a fling with Allen Lacy and was enticed by Christopher Lloyd
for a while. But nobody could captivate a gardener as Henry Mitchell could.
There are three books and I have read them all several times. My fave is
that account of saving over the winter the tropical water lilies. Wife would
not allow them anywhere "hers". So he took them upstairs to a bathroom that
was his. He really loved those water lilies. He stumbled on the newly
carpeted stairs with the bucket of mud and lilies and well, it is a very
instructional essay.
Lacy never appeared anywhere else after the WallSt.J. did he? I think he
began to publish a very expensive private subscription newsletter. Does
anyone read it?
Doesn't matter. Henry was the best. He is consistently voted in the top ten
of garden writers and often the first though he had only three books, one a
collection done after he died, and there was not one photo in any of the
books. Mitchell was a writer.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z5
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