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Nine bound volumes of The Amateurs’ Digest arrived by Mail today from Florida

Posted on September 13, 2019June 20, 2023 by Admin_TADA

I’ve been shopping! And this is the first of two big packages ordered last week, the one from Biblio.com that came in today, and the other from Terrace Horticultural Books, “Used and rare books, seed and plant catalogs, ephemera and periodicals bought and sold,” which I am still expecting. The door buzzer woke me at half past noon (I work nights) and a petite but wiry French Canadian

“The Amateurs’ Digest … what I liked about it was that it had a very ‘down to earth’ ethos and, yes, even though it was just a physical object, i.e. a horticultural magazine (x number of stapled pages), it managed to communicate real enthusiasm and love of the plants on every page. Marina’s presence was evident throughout. I think I sent her a couple of very short notes on cultivation and they appeared in one or two issues. I formed the impression that she was a nice person. I subscribed for a number of years and have kept all my copies …”

— Anthony Murphy, UK, in a comment to Kathleen at the first TADA site