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 fioribunda the almost equally common Andromeda 

 Horibufida ; 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 know^n in 

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



A Quiet Corner at Kew. 



