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197 & Acknowledgments thanks to Maddy Blais, Nicole Greaves-Dougherty, Karen Donovan, Ann de Forest, Chris Jerome, Sharon Kirsch, Carolyn Raskin,and JoanneWyckoff for their comments on this book and for their support.Special thanks to ElaineTerranova for her encouragement and advice. Ted Kerasote helped with this project (including the title we didn’t use) and gave me the generous gift of a place to write in the past. Thanks to my colleagues at Temple, Dennis Lebofsky (whose postcards became a chapter), Eli Goldblatt, and Keith Gumery,for conversations about writing.JaneAlling at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was my guide to vanished gardens. My gardens in Philadelphia would vanish, too, without George Pahler, our neighbor and friend. Grace and Dick Caldwell made us feel like Philadelphia was home. My thanks to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs for the award in creative nonfiction and to Michael Martone for choosing my book.Thanks also to Regan Huff, Jennifer Reichlin, and the wonderful people at the University of Georgia Press,especially Stephen Barnett for his careful editing.I’m grateful to the Leeway Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on theArts for grants while I was writing this book.And,finally,thanks to Graham for coming along on so many walks through woods and gardens. Chapter 11,“Bamboo,” appeared in Isotope, and sections of the first three chapters of the book appeared in a different form in Garden Solutions. This page intentionally left blank ...

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