Compiles vital information for gardeners in the unique climates of New York and the mid-Atlantic area, including Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and southern New York and Long Island.

This edition provides both professional critics and casual readers with a methodical aid to appreciating what the author believes to be the most aesthetically eventful, unobtrusively playful, and undemanding complex long poem of the English Renaissance. Using line-by-line annotation, the edition strives to pay minute and continuous attention to the workings of the poem's dazzlingly protean wit, to its multiple, often breathtakingly artful, internal coherences. While the edition does all the usual work a scholarly annotation is expected to do, it is particularly focused on accomplishing what has not been done by previous Marvell scholarship: laying bare every instance of the poem's dynamic wit. In doing so, it, in particular, alerts Marvell's readers to such, for the most part, non-interpretive, aspects of the poem as associative connections operating on the periphery of one's conscious experience, palpable or merely hinted-at wordplay, coexisting multiple syntaxes, and patterns of formal and informal phonic coherence.

In the early 20th-century, architects designing houses for the balmy climate of Southern California were influenced by the style of the villas and palaces that dominated the architecture of Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and Morocco, and a few other North African locales. The resulting style-noted for its pleasing combination of simplicity and dignity, for its often asymetrical undecorated facades-reflected romantic, European forms, and yet distinguished itself by adding American ingenuity. Prime examples of this include Villa Narcissa, widely celebrated for its unimposing grandeur, and Casa Leon, with its stunning hillside location and ocean views. Included here are residences by noted architects such as Julia Morgan, Bertram Goodhue, Addison Mizner, George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, and others. While some of the houses are lavishly decorated villas with lush landscaping, others are more spare, creations; what all these interpretations of the California Mediterranean style have in common is an indoor-outdoor approach to living.

The Hemmed Land is changing . . . and so is the daughter who was born out of the ultimate sacrifice.With Ilfedo's beloved wife buried, the Hemmed Land is destined to change, as is he.The sea serpents have again invaded the land, and Ilfedo must discover the power behind the sword of the dragon, even as he accepts his people's call to become the Lord Warrior. His daughter grows into a beautiful young woman, whose wisdom and love endears her to the people, and sets her on a journey to find a race of unique and powerful creatures.But far to the north an evil long ago stirred, and the wizard's actions soon threaten everything Ilfedo holds dear.The child born to Ilfedo grows into a strong and beautiful young woman, who wields dragon blood more effectively than those around her. Specter watches over her, staying out of sight but ready always to protect her. But the corruption of the wizards is spreading faster than anyone realizes, and soon the Hemmed Land must face a difficult choice. Stay in their borders, or venture into the adjoining lands and take the enemy in a pre-emptive military strike.Friendships deepen, family strengthens, love blossoms, and the loyalty of Specter remains as steady as a mountain.