Old Herbaceous: A Novel of the Garden

Author(s)/Editor(s): Arkell, Reginald - - Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20221110Standardized Book Category: Humorous - GeneralLanguage: EnglishPage Count: 00110Large Print?: Y=Yes, N=No NPublisher Marketing: Delightful descriptions and characterizations enliven this tale of an old-time gardener in an English countryside garden and his love of plants. With tender mentoring and the luck of winning a prize at the flower show, young Herbert becomes what he had dreamed of. This is the amusing story of an awkward orphan child with one leg a bit longer than the other who rises from unremarkable school-boy days spent picking wild-flowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard. Old Herbaceous traces his journey from young help to head gardener and although things have changed, the world had started with a garden (in