THE ENGLISH 



FLOWER GARDEN 



Design and Arrangement shown by existing 



examples of Gardens in Great Britain and* Ireland 



followed by a Description of the Plants 



Shrubs and Trees for the Open-air Garden 



and their Culture By W. ROBINSON 



Author of c The Wild Garden ' 



Illustrated with many Engravings on Wood 



Eleventh Edition 



"You see, sweet maid, we marry 

 A gentler scion to the wildest stock, 

 And make conceive a bark of baser kind 

 By bud of nobler race : this is an art 

 Which does mend nature, change it rather, but 

 The art itself is nature." Shakespeare. 



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