[NatureNS] Books on lawns (was Lawn flowers/weeds)

Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:56:35 -0300
From: Joan Czapalay <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Thanks so much, Patricia. I have not yet read these, but I shall. 
Cheers, Joan.

P.L. Chalmers wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>         I think the first is the book which  Joan had in mind, but 
> here are two books critiquing this idea of lawns:
>
> Title:          The lawn : a history of an American obsession / 
> Virginia Scott Jenkins.
> Author:         Jenkins, Virginia Scott.
> Publication Info.    Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 
> c1994.
>
>
> Title:          American green : the obsessive quest for the perfect 
> lawn / Ted Steinberg.
> Author: Steinberg, Theodore,1961-
> Publication Info.   New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Patricia L. Chalmers
>         Halifax
>
>
>
> At 08:06 PM 17/06/2007, you wrote:
>> I've been trying to locate a book published about five years ago 
>> about the
>> lawns in our lives. It's a British book and I remember the review I 
>> read, I
>> think was in the Times and covered the sociological and historical 
>> look at
>> lawns.  It's a sore point with me. I am the president of a Halifax 
>> condo and
>> the owners think the grass should look like a golf green( the chemical
>> kind). I keep meaning to ask Terry Paquettes brother who is librarian 
>> at the
>> ag college, whether he has heard of it.
>> Its awful that we human beings are held to ransom by grass
>> Joan Waldron
>>
>> -
>
>

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