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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 
DESIGN, VIEWS, AND PLANS, 
With Descriptions and Illustrations of the best plants, their Culture and Arrangement. 
By W. ROBINSON, 
WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE BEST FLOWER GARDENERS. 
Some Opinions of the Press. 
ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE. 
‘The author is an uncompromising revolu- 
tionist. By founding journals and writing 
books he has done a vast deal to widen men’s 
views on all matters relating to gardens and 
gardening ; and his dicta are based upon a 
notable union of common sense and sound 
taste. This volume may be described as the 
text-book of his principles and practice, and a 
very exhaustive and instructive text-book it is. 
It embraces an inestimable mass of information, 
arranged in dictionary form, and set forth 
with remarkable clearness and completeness.” 
WESTERN MORNING NEWS. 
“The author has in this splendid work 
earned the high praise and deep gratitude of 
all who desire the perfection of this natural 
and national taste—a taste and occupation as 
old as the human race itself, much lauded for 
its simple quietude and contemplative peace- 
fulness by sedate philosophers, and sung by 
enraptured poets.” 
GARDENERS’ MONTHLY (Philadelphia). 
‘* We cordially recommend it as perhaps the 
most profitable floricultural book that has 
appeared for many a long day. We have often 
had enquiries for such a work, but have been 
unable to name any one that covered all the 
ground.as this does. Though called the 
‘English’ Flower Garden, it is in a great 
measure suited as well to America.” 
DAILY TELEGRAPH. 
“We have it on the authority of Emerson 
that he who employs a hireéling to cultivate 
his Radish beds wilfully and deliberately de- 
prives himself of a delicate pleasure that had 
far better have remained in his own hands. 
If this be true in regard to the cultivation of a 
humble vegetable, then the growing of flowers 
must be regarded as a pleasure of a very high 
order. The writer of this book is an advocate 
for the reasonable in this delightful science as 
opposed to the fantastic. All right-minded 
people will follow him in his condemnation of 
stucco adjuncts to the flower garden, and the 
abomination of many kindred heresies. The 
main portion of the work, that devoted to a 
lexicographical arrangement of all the plants 
suited for outdoor cultivation, is admirable, 
and the engravings are as good as they can be.” 
: LLOYD’S WEEKLY. 
‘*This book will help gardeners to improve 
themselves yet further in an art they have 
practised so successfully.” 
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FIELD. 
‘‘This comprehensive book will, of course, 
be of most utility to persons who have large 
gardens ; but those. lovers of gardening who 
have more restricted opportunities to profit by 
it will also find it interesting and valuable.” _ 
SCOTSMAN. 
‘* Altogether, the book will be of the greateay 
value, alike to the amateur and the professiona. 
gardener ; it happily combines the exposition 
of general rules and principles with an immense 
store of practical instruction and detail.” 
GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
‘‘The general object of this book, we are 
told, is to show by what arrangements and 
with what materials gardens, whether large or 
small, may be most effectually made to afford 
rational and lasting pleasure to those who - 
frequent them. In the celebration of Nature’s 
triumph on her restoration to power in English 
gardens, the author deserves to hold a con- 
spicuous place, for no one has done more both 
to make and to meet the demanid for it.” 
COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. 
‘* This is by far the best book on the flower 
garden that has ever been published. It’ con- 
tains in all over 700 closely-printed pages and 
\ nearly 1300 woodcut representations of plants 
used in flower garden decoration. ,The: first 
124 pages are devoted to various subjects’ that 
add to the beauty of the garden, such as 
rockeries, plants of fine form, critiques on | 
‘gardens already in existence, pointing -out 
their faults as well as their merits. They con- 
sist, in short, of a valuable.and instructive 
essay on taste as applied to garden ernamen- 
NEWCASTLE.CHRONICLE. + 
‘* The text is written in a clear and compre- 
hensive manner; but by the free use of a 
number of well-drawn engravings the author 
makes his meaning so explicit, that not even 
the dullest can fail to understand. ‘But the 
great aim of the writer is to encourage a natural 
and easy style of gardening in preference to 
the geometrical floral puzzles which a few years 
ago were the prevailing fashion in our parks 
and gardens. The larger part of the volume, 
however, is devoted to @ ‘description of hardy 
flowers suitable for English gardens in all parts 
of the island.” 
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