The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden
The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

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Author: Robinson, W. (William),1838-1935
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The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

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The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

The Subtropical Garden or, beauty of form in the flower garden

$105.81 $52.88
Author: Robinson, W. (William),1838-1935
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden.

THIS book is written with a view to assist the newly-awakened taste for something more than mere colour in the flower-garden, by enumerating, describing, indicating the best positions for, and giving the culture of, all our materials for what is called subtropical gardening. This not very happy, not very descriptive name, is adopted from its popularity only; fortunately for our gardens numbers of subjects not from subtropical climes may be employed with great advantage. Subtropical gardening means the culture of plants with large and graceful or remarkable foliage or habit, and the association of them with the usually low-growing and brilliant flowering-plants now so common in our gardens, and which frequently eradicate every trace of beauty of form therein, making the flower-garden a thing of large masses of colour only. The guiding aim in this book has been the selection of really suitable subjects, and the rejection of many that have been recommended and tried for this purpose. This point is more important than at first sight would appear, for in most of the literature hitherto devoted to the subject plants entirely unsuitable are named. Thus we find such things as Alnus glandulosa aurea and Ulmus campestris aurea (a form of the common elm) enumerated among subtropical plants by one author. Manifestly if these are admissible almost every species of plant is equally so. These belong to a class of variegated hardy subjects that have been in our gardens for ages, and have nothing whatever to do with subtropical gardening. Two other classes have also purposely been omitted: very tender stove-plants, many of which have been tried in vain in the Paris and London Parks, and such things as Echeveria secunda, which though belonging to a type frequently enumerated among subtropical plants, are, more properly, subjects of the bedding class. But if I have excluded many that I know to be unsuitable, every type of the vegetation of northern and temperate countries has been searched for valuable kinds; and as no tropical or subtropical subject that is really effective has been omitted, the result is the most complete selection that is possible from the plants now in cultivation. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50243
Author: Robinson, W. (William)
Release Date: Oct 17, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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