{"id":2078,"date":"2007-10-01T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-180\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T22:33:04","slug":"hortus-miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/hortus-miscellaneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Hortus Miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/HortusMiscellaneous.jpg\" alt=\"Hortus Miscellaneouscover\" align=\"left\" \/> Whimsy, science, puzzles, construction plans, trivia, lists, do-it-yourself instructions &#8212; it&#8217;s all here in this very hard to describe book. Lorene Edwards Forkner and the late Linda Plato have created a one-of-a-kind book that, like so many other books described in this column, travels well beyond the Pacific Northwest. Turning to a random page, one finds a list of suitable plans for a knot garden, followed by the comparative definitions of monoecious and dioecious, sports teams with horticultural themes (The Fighting Okra?!?), and instructions on how to lay a flagstone pathway. You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2007 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whimsy, science, puzzles, construction plans, trivia, lists, do-it-yourself instructions &#8212; it&#8217;s all here in this very hard to describe book. Lorene Edwards Forkner and the late Linda Plato have created a one-of-a-kind book that, like so many other books described in this column, travels well beyond the Pacific Northwest. Turning to a random page, one finds a list of suitable plans for a knot garden, followed by the comparative definitions of monoecious and dioecious, sports teams with horticultural themes (The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/hortus-miscellaneous\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hortus Miscellaneous<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[22],"class_list":["post-2078","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}