4 THE BOOK OF GARDENING. 



To the nomenclature employed, due regard will be paid, and 

 an endeavour made to bring generic and specific limitation so 

 far up-to-date. At the same time, in a work which claims to be 

 popular, it has not been thought desirable to altogether ignore 

 purely trade names. Where, therefore, a plant is familiarly known 

 in commerce by a certain name, this will be given as a 

 synonym. For instance, few amateurs would recognise by the 

 name of Fatsia japonica the very familiar Aralia Sieboldii ; 

 or in Pieris floribunda the almost equally common Andromeda 

 floribunda ; or yet again the favourite Laiania borbonica as 

 Livistona chinensis, grown in such quantities for the markets. 

 For this reason the names by which plants are known in 

 nurserymen's catalogues will be as far as possible respected. 



A Quiet Corner at Kew. 



