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By Tasha Halpert
Arundel Suburban Ktmpvm Special Writer
Garden books, like cookbooks, are a genre unto themselves, comprising an assortment of different types and running the gamut from the general to the specific.
People collect garden books to read even as they do cookbooks, finding them entertaining as well as useful. The avid gardener whiles away the dreary winter months dreaming of flower beds and prize cabbages or corn, nurtured with tried and true or innovative techniques gleaned from a variety of sources.
Secondhand bookstores are a good source because many garden books never go out of style. The Gardener’s Bed-book, a classic in the field by Richardson Wright, author of a number of garden books, is typical.
Wright’s book begins with a discussion of how to read in bed and still remain happily married, suggesting that the avid gardener first drone his spouse to sleep by reading something soothing, and then
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