PREFACE 
Ir the reader is as fond of his garden as I am of mine, I 
hope that he will look with kindly eyes on this collection of 
photographs of beautiful and rare trees and plants. How it 
came to be made was in this way. Last year the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society of London did me the honour to ask me to 
send them a paper on ornamental trees and shrubs for their 
Journal, and suggested that some photographs should accom- 
pany it. It was such pleasant work taking the likenesses 
of plants, most of which I had planted myself, and tended 
for years with much care, that I kept adding to the number, 
until this book was the result. It required perhaps some 
audacity to add another to the many books on gardening 
which have appeared lately, but I am assured by those who 
ought to know, that there are now such numbers of people 
who are interested in this delightful pursuit, that there is 
room for even one more. 
As far as I am aware there is no work hitherto published 
which gives representations of the trees and plants themselves, 
and it is evidently an advantage to be able to supplement the 
description by a reference to the sun picture, which must be 
absolutely true to nature. In the brief notes which were 
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