  Title: The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England Author: Harry Roberts Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by |
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HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL GARDENING—IV
EDITED BY HARRY ROBERTS
THE BOOK OF OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS
THE BOOK OF OLD-
FASHIONED FLOWERS
AND OTHER PLANTS WHICH THRIVE
IN THE OPEN-AIR OF ENGLAND
BY
HARRY ROBERTS
AUTHOR OF "THE CHRONICLE OF A CORNISH GARDEN"
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
REPRODUCED FROM DRAWINGS BY
ETHEL ROSKRUGE
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK. MCMI
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh.
TO HOMELY UNAFFECTED PEOPLE WHO APPRECIATE HOMELY UNASSUMING FLOWERS
"The precious metals are not often found at the surface of the earth."—Sir Arthur Helps
"I speak with the lowliest of the meadow flowers as readily as with the highest fir-trees."—Heine[viii]
