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My principal debt is to my wife Mary, a nurseryman’s daughter and trained horticulturalist who has joined me on countless visits to gardens, has taken some of the photographs in this volume, and read an early draft of this book with great care. I have also benefited from the assistance of Thomas Corns, Ebo Aebischer-Crettol, Stella Fletcher, Vicky Lewis, and Hiroko Sano, who have variously read early drafts of chapters or elucidated linguistic points or talked through issues with me. Sheri Repucci kindly corrected my account of Calvert Vaux.
OUP organizes the creation of books in a congenial pass-the-parcel system. Andrea Keegan commissioned the book and Sophie Goldsworthy signed the contract on behalf of the Press. Andrea and Jenny Nugee then carried the book from contract to submission, in the process reading preliminary drafts and soliciting the views of four immensely helpful external readers, two of whom kindly read the completed manuscript. Carrie Hickman was the picture researcher, Dan Harding the copy-editor, Chandrakala Chandrasekaran the production manager, Alannah Santra the in-house production editor, and Alex Walker the cover designer. The proofreader was Dorothy McCarthy, and the index was prepared by Kim Birchall. Marketing was the responsibility of Phil Henderson and Elle Chilvers, and press and publicity were the responsibility of Anna Gell. They constitute a wonderfully supportive team, and I am grateful to all of them.
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