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exponents of the school are Loudon in the recent 

 past, and Messrs Marnock and Robinson in the 

 present, and their method is based upon Loudon. 

 To know how to la)- out a garden after the 

 most approved modern fashion we have but to turn 

 to the deservedly popular pages of " The English 

 Flower Garden." This book contains not only model 

 designs and commended examples from various 

 existing gardens, but text contributed by some 

 seventy professional and amateur gardeners. Even 

 the gardener who has other ideals and larger 

 ambitions than are here expected, heartily welcomes 

 a book so well stored with modern garden-lore up to 

 date, with suggestions for new aspects of vegetation, 

 new renderings of plant life, and must earnestly 

 desire to see any system of gardening made perfect 

 after its kind — 



" I wish the sun should shine 



On all men's fruits and flowers, as well as mine." 



Gardening is, above all things, a progressive Art 

 which has never had so fine a time to display its 

 possibilities as now, if we were only wise enough to 

 freely employ old experiences and modern opportu- 

 nities. People are, however, so readily content with 

 their stereotyped models, with barren imitations, 

 with their petty list of specimens, when instead of 

 half-a-dozen kinds of plants, their garden has room 

 for hundreds of different plants of fine form — hardy 

 or half-hardy, annual and bulbous — which would 

 equally well suit the British garden and add to its 

 wealth of beaut)- by varied colourings in spring, 



