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HANDY BOOK OF THE FLOWER- 

 GARDEN: 



BEING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE PROPAGATION, 

 CULTURE, AND ARRANGEMENT OF PLANTS IN FLOWER- 

 GARDENS ALL THE YEAR ROUND. Embracing all classes 

 of Gardens, from the largest to the smallest. With 

 Engraved and Coloured Plans, illustrative of the various 

 systems of grouping in Beds and Borders. By DAVID 

 THOMSON, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Buc- 

 cleuch, K.G., at Drumlanrig. 



A New and Enlarged Edition, crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. "Its author is entitled to great praise 

 for the simple and clear manner in which he has explained the cul- 

 tural directions, which, if carefully complied with, will enable the 

 non-professional floriculturist to grow plants as well as any gardener." 



THE FIELD. " We are acquainted with the results produced by the 

 able author, as well as with his book, and therefore can pronounce 

 the book the best on the subject yet written or likely to be written 

 for a long time to come." 



HANDY BOOK OF FRUIT CUL- 

 TURE UNDER GLASS. 

 By the SAME. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 

 Illustrated with numerous Engravings. 



Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. 



SCOTSMAN. "No work of the kind of which we have any know- 

 ledge is at all to be compared with this. It is the result of ripe 

 experience, close thought, and ample acquaintance with the subject 

 in all its parts. There is nothing connected with the cultivation of 

 fruit under glass that Mr Thomson does not most lucidly explain ; 

 and the result is, that his book is one that ought to be in the hands 

 of every gardener, of every amateur fruit-grower, and, indeed, of 

 every one who desires to know the best that can be known on the 

 subject." 



NORTH BRITISH AGRICULTURIST. "Nowhere that we are aware of 

 are the forcing and general culture of the better-known fruits dealt 

 with as they are here concisely and exhaustively in one handy vol- 

 ume. Mr Thomson's ripe experience is displayed on every page of 

 this carefully prepared work, which is written in a style that is 

 calculated to interest even the general reader." 



