{"product_id":"the-american-gardener-9780812967371","title":"The American Gardener","description":"\u003cb\u003eBack in print after 150 years\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOut of print since 1856, \u003ci\u003eThe American Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the first classic work of American gardening literature. In it, William Cobbett, Victorian England's greatest and most gifted journalist, draws upon his experiences during a two-year exile on a Long Island, New York, farm to lay out the rudiments of gardening for American farmers and, ultimately, to tailor principles developed in wet, drippy, weed-prone British gardens to their fine, sun-drenched counterparts in America. Full of practical knowledge memorably imparted with Cobbett's gift for the indelible phrase, \u003ci\u003eThe American Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e offers advice still useful today on all aspects of gardening, with special attention to those plants successful in the New World, including the artichoke (\"indeed, a thistle upon a gigantic scale\") and the increasingly ubiquitous potato. Rediscovered 180 years after its composition, \u003ci\u003eThe American Gardener\u003c\/i\u003e is evidence of a great mind and pen at work in the earliest days of American gardens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis Modern Library edition is published with a new Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e editorialist and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rural Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaking Hay\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Fine Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Cobbett\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Surrey in 1762, was the most prolific muck-raking journalist of his age and the publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe Political Register\u003c\/i\u003e, the main newspaper of the working class in early-nineteenth-century England. He died in 1835. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Pollan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Botany of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e (available from Random House Trade Paperbacks) and \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of the best gardening books of the twentieth century by the American Horticultural Society. He is a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eHarper\u003c\/i\u003e's magazine and a contributing writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845466231058,"sku":"9780812967371","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eff27328-d1a0-4036-98fb-db503643e971.jpg?v=1737351651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-american-gardener-9780812967371","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}