H.E. Bates Companion

In this brief review of Gertude Jekyll: A Memoir (by Francis Jekyll), Bates pays tribute to a horticulturist ("she laid out something like two hundred gardens") and author (of nearly twenty books on plants and gardening) for whom "gardening was clearly a spiritual thing...something like a religion." He however finds this memoir inadequate; "she stands out as an extraordinary figure, and she is worthy of an extraordinary biographer." In The Spectator (September 28, 1934, p. 448).