PREFACE 



I WILL not apologise, this time, for inviting enthusiasts 

 to accompany me round my little territories : for so 

 large a company was kindly enough to take pleasure in 

 My Rock-Garden, that now I am sure that those who 

 enjoyed the earlier book will be pleased to find, in this 

 volume, all the treasured rarities and delights which 

 pressure of space forbade me to include in its predecessor 

 — or, rather, forced me, with bitter lamentations, to 

 excise from its mutilated pages. With all the more joy, 

 then, do I offer this timely reparation, no less to my 

 friends who read than to my friends who are written of 

 — to the countless omitted beauties of my garden, whom 

 I had seemed to pass over in an ungrateful silence. 



REGINALD FARRER. 



October 1908. 



