For the avid gardener, classic gardening books are treasures.

Would you rather be working in thegardenthan reading?

Add a few vintage gardening books to your shelves this yearyou’ll love returning to them again and again.

Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols

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White, who also provides the introduction to the book.

It’s a wonderful read and one in which Nichols' fresh perspective proves perennial.

(It’sLonicera, if you were wondering.)

A Southern Garden by Elizabeth Lawrence

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Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White

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The American Gardener by William Cobbett

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Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perényi

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The Well-Tempered Garden: Wisdom and Advice from a Legendary Gardener by Christopher Lloyd

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The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page

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The Gardener’s Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things by Richardson Wright

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Rhapsody in Green

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The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek

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Jamaica Kincaid

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Life in the Garden

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Derek Jarman’s Garden

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The New Kitchen Garden by Anna Pavord

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Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

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