Digitizing Project: An Oak Spring Sylva - Preview

An Oak Spring Sylva is the first book in the Garden Library series.

Preview the following pages: Contents, List of Illustrations, and entry #4.

"Small plants lined my window-sill, and I gathered wild-flower seeds as if they were gold found in streams. My New Hampshire grandfather, to whose memory this book is dedicated, encouraged this enthusiasm, leading me through woods and up mountains, and taking me on trips to Concord, Massachusetts, to lean and study the world of Thoreau,
Emerson, and Hawthorne. These memories are a small part of the beginning of the Oak Spring Garden Library."

(Rachel Lambert Mellon, January 1989, Preface, An Oak Spring Sylva)