Re: Henry Mitchell Syndicated
- Subject: Re: Henry Mitchell Syndicated
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 23:29:40 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/02 11:07:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> 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?
===>I subscribed for a while, but then discontinued. I don't know if he still
publishes it. I think it was titled "Homeground".
>
> 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.
Try Elizabeth Lawrence too. I've read Mitchell's three books and we still
have them on the shelves. Ken Druse's new Making More Plants is a fascinating
book and one should think about how he took all the photos himself, even
those which are close-ups of his own two hands!
Bill Lee
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