A facsimile edition of Nichols' beloved classic, originally published in 1932. On its surface an account of creating a garden at Huntingdonshire in the 1930s, it's an entertaining ode to the pleasures and perils of gardening. Nichols answers in splendid prose, rich in anecdote, the ageless question: Why Garden? Timber Press has also reissued The Merry Hall Trilogy and many of Nichols's other gardening books and lightly fictionalized novels (always as much about plants as people). He was a prolific writer and man-about-town (1898-1983).  (GBR598, $24.95)

Neglected Classics
Gardens