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publisher's preface 



The ultimate ideals of art, taste, judgment 

 and harmony are not local hut universal. 

 A successful discussion of their principles is of 

 value not to one nation, but to many. The 

 present volume, written by an Englishman, from 

 an English point of view, has, added to the 

 weight of his practical knowledge, the benefit 

 of England's many years of experience in 

 garden making. It carries to the reader both 

 the writer's originahty of treatment and the 

 conventionality of well-founded theories. 



But few alterations for the benefit of Ameri- 

 can readers have been necessary in the text. 

 The lists of plants in the appendix have been more 

 extensively revised in adapting them to Ameri- 

 can conditions, but in every case the aim has 

 been to amplify, not to arbitrarily change, the 

 original list. In regard to the rearranging and 

 compihng of the present tables, acknowledg- 

 ment is rendered to the following whose efforts 

 have supplied valuable assistance: L. H. Bailey, 

 P. T. Barnes, J. J. Levinson, W. C. McCollum, 

 Wilhelm Miller, Thomas Murray, J.T. Scott, M. 

 C. Sedgewick, and E. L. D. Seymour. The nom- 

 enclature has been standardized according to L. 

 H.Bailey's Cyclopedia of AmericanHorticulture. 



