Gardening

Part 1
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
by Andrea Wulf
This is the fascinating story of a small group of eighteenth-century naturalists who made Britain a nation of gardeners and the epicenter of horticultural and botanical expertise. It's the story of a garden revolution that began in America.

Desire: Sweetness, Plant: The Apple
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
If you happened to find yourself on the banks of the Ohio River on a particular afternoon in the spring of 1806 - somewhere just to the north of Wheeling, West Virginia, say - you would probably have noticed a strange makeshift craft drifting lazily down