Volume 47, Number 1 · January 20, 2000

Looking at a Snowdrop

By James Fenton
A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden
by Joe Eck, by Wayne Winterrowd

Henry Holt, 214 pp., $19.95 (paper)

Annuals and Biennials
by Roger Phillips, by Martyn Rix

London: MacMillan, 288 pp., £19.99

The Genus Galanthus
by Aaron P. Davis, illustrated by Christabel King

Royal Botanical Gardens/Timber Press, 297 pp., $39.95

My Garden (Book)
by Jamaica Kincaid, illustrated by Jill Fox

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 229 pp., $23.00

My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love
edited by Jamaica Kincaid

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 329 pp., $20.00

The Explorer's Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials
by Daniel J. Hinckley

Timber Press, 380 pp., $39.95

Small Books of Great Gardens: Alhambra: A Moorish Paradise Enchantment, each volume, 79
photographs by Claire de Virieu, text by Gabrielle van Zuylen, by Gilles de Brissac, by Pierre Bergé, by Madison Cox, by Lauro Marchetti, by Esrne Howard

Vendome Press, Apremont: A French Folly; Majorelle: A Moroccan; Ninfa: A Roman pp., $18.95 each

Much garden wisdom can be turned on its head. 'The wise gardener,' say Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd in AYear atNorth Hill,



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