PREFACE 



Feom its simple nature, tliis book seems scarcely to 

 need any prefatory remarks, with the exception only 

 of certain acknowledgments. 



A. portion of the contents (about one-third) ap- 

 peared during the years 1896 and 1897 in the pages 

 of the Chmrdian, as " Notes from Garden and Wood- 

 land." I am indebted to the courtesy of the editor 

 and, proprietors of that journal for permission to 

 republish these notes. 



The greater part of the photographs from which 

 the illustrations have been prepared were done on my 

 own groimd — a space of some fifteen acres. Some of 

 them, owing to my want of technical abiUty as a photo- 

 grapher, were very weak, and have only been rendered 

 available by the skill of the reproducer, for whose 

 careful work my thanks are due. 



A small number of the photographs were done 

 for reproduction in wood-engraving for Mr. Robin- 

 son's Garden, Gardening Illustrated, and English Flower 



