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Hundred and Eighty llhistratioiis, 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN 



DESIGN, VIEWS, AND PLANS, 



With Descriptions and illustrations of the best plants, their Culture and Arrangement. 

 By W. EOBINSON, 



WITH THE CO-OPEKATION OF THK BEST FLOWER GARDEXERS. 



§omc ©pinions of the Jjrcss. 



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 aud deep gratitude of 

 all who desire the perfection of this natural 

 and national taste— a taste and oc upation 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 ])rofitable floricultural book that has 

 appeared for many a long day. AVe 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 TELEGRARH. 



" We have it on the authority of Emerson 

 that he who employs a hireling 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 ti'ue 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.'" 



London 



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 greatest 

 value, alike to the amateur and the professional 

 gardener ; it happily combines the exposition 

 of general rules and principles with an immense 

 store of practical instruction aud 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 ettectually 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 demand 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 

 12't 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 ornamen- 

 tation." 



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 explirit, 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 a description of hardy 

 flowers suitable for English gardens in all parts 

 island. " 



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