“I devoured it in a single sitting, front page to last, and I’ll wager that many, many others have done so before me.” —Allen Lacy
“Richardson Wright’s resonant meditations on everything from the staking of lilies to the appreciation of nineteenth-century prints of roses are pithy, often amusing, and are marvelously distilled from his life as a master editor and gardener. They will delight a generation that never knew him.” —Henry Mitchell, The Washington Post
