Hi JMG,

For many years I've been looking for a book that my town library had in the mid-1980s. Given the breadth of your knowledge of literature, I'm hoping you (or perhaps another reader) might be able to identify it. The book was at least partly on the subject of a magical household. It had a chapter entitled "The Witch's Garden" or something similar, with nifty little diagrams as seen in gardening books of herbal and woody plantings for a magically inclined cottage garden, possibly printed in brown ink (though I may have confabulated that part over the years). I recall it as being a very large-format, but fairly thin, paperback. I'm pretty sure it was not one of Scott Cunningham's books. I will be very grateful for any suggestions. Thanks very much,

Dewey

I thought at first it might be one of Pauline Campanelli's beautiful books, but what you describe isn't in any of them. Nor does it seem to be in Harold A. Hansen's _The Witch's Garden_. Could it have been Dorothy Jacob's _A Witch's Guide to Gardening_ (1965)? I don't have that one, so I can't check it against your description. She also wrote _Curss and Curses_ (1967), which I don't have either. -- Robert Mathiesen

Do let us know here, once it has arrived, whether it was the right one. I am curious. I'll check back weekly for a month or so. -- Robert Mathiesen

Thanls so much for letting me know, Dewey! I'm glad to hear that even so, you're happy with it. -- RObert