Wall and Water Gardens PDF

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There is scarcely an English country home where some kind of gardening is not practised, while in a very large number of country places their owners have in some degree become aware of the happiness that comes of a love of flowers, and of how much that happiness increases when personal labour and study work together to a better knowledge of their wants and ways.<br><br>In this book a portion only of the great subject of horticulture is considered, namely, simple ways of using some of the many beautiful mountain plants, and the plants of marsh and water.

It is intended as a guide to amateurs, being written by one of their number, who has tried to work out some of the problems presented by the use of these classes of plants to the bettering of our gardens and outer grounds.<br><br>The book does not attempt to exhaust the subject, neither does it presume to lay down the law.

It is enough, in the case of the rock and wall plants, for instance, to name some of the best and easiest to grow.