Download PDF by Karel Capek,Josef Capek: The Gardener's Year

By Karel Capek,Josef Capek

"This very enjoyable quantity with its delightfully funny photos might be learn through all gardeners." — Nature
"Mr. Čapek writes with sympathy, realizing, and humor." — The ny Times
"Has a mellowness and a appeal that provide it a excessive position within the funny literature of gardening … will satisfaction the beginner gardener, and certainly each person else." — Saturday Review
The writer of this ebook is better identified across the world because the writer of R.U.R., the science-fiction play that brought the time period "robot" to the area. Karel Čapek's satiric presents take a unique flip during this impishly comedian e-book, which recounts the rigors, labors, joys, and meditations of the beginner gardener.
Rather than a how-to e-book, Čapek's quantity bargains a lighthearted mock-treatise at the pains and rewards of tending a small and resistant backyard plot. From January to December, the writer and his brother, illustrator Josef Čapek, hint the vagaries of the beginner horticulturist's 12 months, with short facet notes on seeds, the soil, crops, the beauties of autumn, and different facets of gardening. Fifty-nine pleasant drawings supplement this booklet, with a view to amuse readers with and with no eco-friendly thumbs.

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