PREFACE 
I witt not apologise, this time, for inviting enthusiasts 
to accompany me round my little territories: for so 
large a company was kindly enough to take pleasure in 
My Rock-Garden, that now I am sure that those who 
enjoyed the earlier book will be pleased to find, in this 
volume, all the treasured rarities and delights which 
pressure of space forbade me to include in its predecessor 
—or, rather, forced me, with bitter lamentations, to 
excise from its mutilated pages. With all the more joy, 
then, do I offer this timely reparation, no less to my 
friends who read than to my friends who are written of 
—to the countless omitted beauties of my garden, whom 
I had seemed to pass over in an ungrateful silence. 
REGINALD FARRER. 
October 1908. 
