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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
This list of horticulture and gardening books includes notable gardening books and journals, which can to aid in research and for residential gardeners in planning, planting, harvesting, and maintaining gardens. Gardening books encompass a variety of subjects from garden design, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, to shade gardens.
Enjoy a word-linking puzzle game where you clear space for flowers to grow by spelling words.
Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.
A flower garden or floral garden is any garden or part of a garden where plants that flower are grown and displayed. This normally refers mostly to herbaceous plants, rather than flowering woody plants, which dominate in the shrubbery and woodland garden , although both these types may be part of the planting in any area of the garden.
The Gardens of Monticello were gardens first designed by Thomas Jefferson for his plantation Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson's detailed historical accounts of his 5,000 acres provide much information about the ever-changing contents of the gardens. [1] The areas included a flower garden, a fruit orchard, and a vegetable ...
The International Peace Garden (French: Jardin international de la paix) is a 3.65-square-mile (9.5 km 2) park located adjacent to the International Peace Garden Border Crossing along the Canada–United States border between the province of Manitoba and the state of North Dakota. It was established on July 14, 1932, as a symbol of the peaceful ...
The first issue, published on 1 February 1787, [2] was begun by William Curtis, as both an illustrated gardening and botanical journal.Curtis was an apothecary and botanist who held the position of Praefectus Horti (Director) and demonstrator of plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden, who had published the highly praised (but poorly sold) Flora Londinensis a few years before.