The TOOL BOOK FOR THE WELL-TENDED GARDEN WITH DUST COVER PUB 1997

The Tool book celebrates garden tools in all their pleasure, with 13 chapters and more than 70 striking full-color photographic spreads, this book presents hundreds of tools. The Garden Writers Association of America declared it best book of the year for 1998. And The New York Times wrote: "Logan, who is one of our best garden writers, has produced not only a real book but a scrupulously researched, handsomely designed, and highly enjoyable one to book."The Took Book celebrates garden tools in all their pleasure, practicality, variety, beauty, ingenuity, simplicity, and purity. Obsessive informative-present hundreds of tools organized by task: 22 shovels, 21 spades, 12 trowels, 16 hoes, 11 weeders, 19 hand pruners, 10 pruning saws. In addition to garden tool necessities, here are knives, axes, hooks, watering cans, rakes, riddles, brooms, wheel barrows, shears, and scoops, and much more. There are tools to start the garden from seed in the spring, tools to keep it growing and healthy all summer, and tools clean up in the fall. And, finally, tools to care for the tools. This book was published in 1997 and is no longer in print there were only 37,000 copies printed. Very good condition. The dust cover has a slit (shown in the image) this did not affect the hardcover. Tags: gardening, flowers, tools, books, reading, summer, spring, planting, gardener, roses, peony, holly hocks, trees plants, coffee table books