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    Letters to Wendy

    Aug 18, 2020 3 minutes

    Put off by the word ‘amateur’

    I AM 75 years young and have been interested in gardening all my adult life. Over this time I have, I suppose, subscribed to most of the gardening periodicals.

    I have never, until recently, considered buying Amateur Gardening magazine. A friend gave me a copy, and it is by some margin the most informative gardening magazine I have read.

    So why the 50-year lack of interest? . I, along with, I suspect, a fairly high percentage of the population, am confused about the meaning of

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