INTRODUCTION 3 
There should be no difficulty in obtaining any of the 
plants that are mentioned in this book, for the persistent 
advocacy by the author of the merits of garden shrubs 
and trees has brought them into sufficient prominence 
to induce nurserymen in all parts of the United Kingdom 
to include them in their stocks. It may not be possible 
to see them all growing in the same nursery, but any 
nurseryman of position should be able to supply them 
all, and at a price within the means of the majority of 
those who own gardens. Intending planters should, as 
far as practicable, see the kinds they purpose planting 
growing in the nurseries or in neighbouring gardens, 
and in the case of those grown for their flowers when in 
bloom. ‘Tastes differ, and while all are more or less 
beautiful, some will be preferred to others; and by 
making a selection when in full growth the purchaser 
can not only select those most in accordance with his 
taste, but he can form a much better idea as to the 
suitability of the respective kinds for the position they 
are intended to occupy. 
