THE 
GARDENER’S ASSISTANT 
A PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC EXPOSITION OF THE 
ART OF GARDENING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES 
BY 
ROBERT THOMPSON 
OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, CHISWICK 
NEW EDITION 
REVISED AND ENTIRELY REMODELLED UNDER THE DIRECTION 
AND GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF 
WILLIAM WATSON 
CURATOR, ROYAL GARDENS, KEW 
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 
Dr. M. T. MASTERS, F.R.S., EDWARD MAWLEY, F.M.S., G. MASSEE, F.L.S. 
F. W. BURBIDGE, M.A., F.L.S., J. FRASER, F.L.S., J. J. WILLIS 
R. LEWIS CASTLE, W. IGGULDEN, R. DEAN, J. HUDSON, J. DOUGLAS, W. J. BEAN 
AND NUMEROUS OTHER EMINENT SPECIALISTS 
ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT, 
AND A SERIES OF PLATES IN COLOUR, AND OF PLATES IN BLACK-AND-WHITE 
Volume 1 
LONDON 
THE GRESHAM PUBLISHING COMPANY 
34 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND 
1907 
