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AUTHORS NOTE 



Tlie illustrations ivere really an afterthought on the part of the 

 eminent house that is introclucing the book to the pull ic. They 

 have been prepared by a first-class firm of horticultural printers, 

 and it is hoped icill prove an attraction^ 



Donald M^Donalt). 



Lee, Kent. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



Apart from the generosity of the Editor of The Garden, who has 

 graced the opening pages with an Introduction, the writer is indebted 

 to a host of friends, both at home and abroad, for many vakiable 

 hints, and it is his privilege to mention Mr. J. H. Maiden, Botanist 

 to the Government of New South Wales ; Mr. C. G. Zonch, of the 

 New South Wales Government Survey ; Mr. G. L. Searight, of the 

 Indian Government Survey; Mr. P. France, an enthusiastic Horti- 

 culturist at Cape Town, South Africa ; the Rev. H. Honey wood 

 Dombrain, of the National Rose Society, for a cliavming note on 

 Sweet-Smelling Roses ; the Rev. David Williamson and Mr. C. J. 

 Grahame for similar favours. 



He has also derived a deal of information from the follo^ving 

 books and journals, to the proprietors of which he tenders his 

 obligations : — 



Asa Gray's American Plants ; Balfour's Plants of the World ; Boiilger's 

 The Uses of Plants; Brown's Flora of Africa; Bulletin of the 

 Royal Gardens^ Kew ; Don's Gardener^s Dictionary ; Firminger's 

 Indian Garden Manual; Friend's Flowers and FIov:er Lore; 

 Lindley's Treasury of Botany ; Loudon's EncycJopadia of Plants ; 

 Mueller's Australian Phmts; Mott's Flora Odorafa ; Piesse, On 

 Olfactics ; Rhind's Vegefahle Kingdom; 'Kim.meVs, Plants used in 

 Peifumery ; Robinson's Enrjlish Flower Garden ; Sawer's Odoro- 

 graphia ; Smith's Domestic Botany ; Thornton's Temple of Hora ; 

 Twamley's Romance of Nature ; The Garden ; Gardening Illus- 

 trated ; GardjiiK r'-s Chronicle : Journal of Horticulture ; Gardener^s 

 Magazine ; Gardening World; Amateur Gardening ; The Standard. 



