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Pennington tells a terrific story of the rise and fall ofornamental vegetable gardening between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, andits comeback in the twentieth. The allure of her book is in its seamless lamination ofscholarship and lucid narrative. The cast of supporting characters is made up of bothfamiliar figures (Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Pope, etc.) and obscure heroes of horticul-ture and landscape architecture. Captivating and inspiring, this book will appeal to anyonewho ever tried to grow something and eat it."Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist