Adventures in a Suburban Garden

xv, 250 pp. Michael Pollan called Wilder's works "socio-botanical commentaries." Includes: Foreword; The Garden Borders: Winter Notes; Spring Planting for Autumn Beauty; Tulip Notes for Spring Harmonies; Impressions of the Newer May Tulips; Some Roses of Other Days; New Color Schemes in the Garden; Revamping the Hardy Border; Plant a Garden for March; Rock Garden and Wild Garden: Escaped from Gardens; The Amenities of Rock Plant Collecting; Hardy Cyclamens for the Garden; Androsaces; Geraniums and Erodiums in the Rock Garden; Getting Acquainted with Saxifrages; The Columbine Commendable; Trillium Thrills; High Lights Among Small Bell-flowers; Gems Among the Little Brooms; Who's Who Among the Native Orchids; First Steps with Gentians; Penstemon Possibilities; A Shade Loving Tribe; Veronicas in Variety; The Peculiar Charm of House-leeks; Hardy Asters in the Rock Garden; Annuals for the Rock Garden; Opportunity in the Small Rock Garden; Index.