IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN. 



In One Volume. Crown 8vo, doth, gilt top. 6s. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



Guardian. 'All lovers of nature will be grateful to Canon Ella- 

 combe for this delightful book. To read it is like going round his 

 garden with the author and having a part in his keen enjoyment of the 

 beauty of plant life, and of his quick perception of the many wonders 

 of vegetable physiology. The book may be warmly recommended to 

 all who love gardens, while it also cannot fail to interest even the 

 horticulturally unlearned. It is written in a style that is clear, bright, 

 and simple, and from beginning to end there is not a dull or wearisome 

 sentence. ' 



Pall Mall Gazette. ' A most delightful volume. We have much 

 pleasure in recommending In a Gloucestershire Garden, both to those 

 who possess a knowledge of plants, and to all those who love pleasant 

 talk about flowers. The book is a worthy companion to Mr. Bright's 

 Lancashire Garden, and to E. V. B.'s Days and Hours.' 



Athenesum. t Co.nQn Ellacombe knows what he is writing about, 

 and he knows how to write. He tells us all about his garden and the 

 treasures it contains, but his book is no mere descriptive catalogue. 

 It is permeated with a pleasant literary flavour, and the many refer- 

 ences to the works of poets and prose writers are introduced because 

 they are apposite and suggestive, not because they happen to be 

 registered in the author's commonplace book. A series of miscel- 

 laneous essays constitutes the second part of this very readable and 

 satisfactory book. ' 



Westminster Gazette.' Canon Ellacombe's latest volume is full of 

 attractiveness, not only to lovers of flowers for their beauty, but to all 

 who take an interest in the history, peculiarities, and associations of 

 the denizens of our gardens. Altogether a charming book. ' 



Times. ' It certainly ought to appeal to a wide range of readers, 

 for it is written in a most pleasant style, and, without any parade of 

 science, is evidently the fruit of long personal observation. Canon 

 Ellacombe is a scholar, and writes as a scholar.' 



Western Morning News. 'To those who have enjoyed Milver's 

 Country Pleasures, or Alphonse Karr's Tour round my Garden, 

 Canon Ellacombe's book will come as a great pleasure. From end 

 to end it is delightfully written by a man who is a scholar, as well as 

 an enthusiastic lover of nature and a master of the art of gardening.' 



St. James's Gazette, -'Mr. Ellacombe's book on the delights of 

 gardening is a rare combination of erudition and observation. The 

 writer knows his plants personally, so to speak, and intimately, and 

 can talk just as gracefully about their beauty and aesthetic charm as if 

 he did not know a stamen from a pistil, and yet he is deeply versed in 

 the science of the subject, and has its literature at his finger-tips. 

 The result of reading the book is to fill one with a longing to take 

 orders and study gardening, if possible, as Mr. Ellacombe's curate.' 



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