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Forewords to New Edition 



As good examples of wild-gardening are likely often 



to lie out of my own path, and as distinct and unlooked 



for residts will often arise, I should be grateful to all 



who will tell me of them in the hope of making the 



book more suggestive in future, as among the ways of 



escape from the death-note of the pastry-cook's garden 



there is none more delightful to all who have any grass 



or fields or woods about them. 



W. R. 

 April 18, 1894. 





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SPIE^ AS, bushy and herbaceous. 



