A PEACTIOAL 



GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS 



CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE 



HARDIEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS 



HAEDY HEBBACEOUS AND BULBOUS PEEENNIALS 



HAEDY WATER AND BOG PLANTS 



FLOWERING AND ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS 



CONIFERS; HARDY FERNS; HARDY BAMBOOS 



AND OTHER ORNAMENTAL GRASSES 



ALSO THE BEST KINDS OF 



FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 



THAT MAY BE GROWN IN THE OPEN AIR IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS 

 WITH FULL AND PEACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO 



CULTUEE AND PROPAGATION 

 By JOHN WEATHEES, E.E.H.S. 



LATE ASSISTANT- SECRETARY TO THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAIi SOCIETY, 



HORTICULTURAL LECTURER TO THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY COUNCIL, 



FORMERLY OP THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, ETC. 



'Then let the learned gardener mark with care 

 The kinds of stocks, and what those kinds will bear ; 

 Explore the nature of each several tree, 

 And, known, improve with artful industry. 

 And let no spot of idle earth be found, 

 But cultivate the genius of the ground ' — Virgil (I)i'yden''s tramlation) 



"WXTH les iXiXiTTsarzE^j^Tionsrs 



LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO. 



39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON 



NEW YORK AND BOMBAY 



1901 



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