Volume 28, Number 17 · November 5, 1981
The Rake's Progress
By Mary McCarthy
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
by Eleanor Perényi
Random House, 289 pp., $15.50
Eleanor Perényi's title is from Marvell: 'Annihilating all that's made / To a green Thought in a green Shade' ('The Garden'). Her genius here, though, is Johnsonian, and I mean it as a high compliment. These witty and useful sallies on the art and practice of gardening are arranged in dictionary form; the entries proceed alphabetically from 'Annuals' through 'Woman's Place,' with an appendix on catalogues.
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