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,or directly on the image,will bring up a larger version of the illustration.)THE SUBTROPICAL GARDEN.
Works by the same Author.
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ALPINE FLOWERS FOR ENGLISH GARDENS. With 70 Illustrations.
THE WILD GARDEN, or our Groves and Shrubberies made beautiful bythe naturalisation of hardy exotic plants. With Frontispiece.
MUSHROOM CULTURE: its Extension and Improvement. WithIllustrations.
Nearly Ready.
HARDY FLOWERS; or, HERBACEOUS, BULBOUS, AND ALPINE PLANTS. Thiswill be the most comprehensive and practically instructive bookever published on these plants. With Frontispiece.
A CATALOGUE OF CULTIVATED HARDY PERENNIALS, BULBS, ANNUALS, etc.,including also all British Plants. Prepared for the purpose offacilitating exchanges, &c., and enumerating nearly 10,000 hardyexotic and British plants.
Frontispiece.
THE
SUBTROPICAL GARDEN;
OR,
BEAUTY OF FORM IN THE
FLOWER GARDEN.
BY W. ROBINSON, F.L.S.,
AUTHOR OF ‘ALPINE FLOWERS,’ ‘THE WILD GARDEN,’ ‘HARDY FLOWERS,’ ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1871.
The right of Translation is reserved.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET
AND CHARING CROSS.
PREFACE.
THIS book is written with a view to assist the newly-awakened taste forsomething more than mere colour in the flower-garden, by enumerating,describing, indicating the best positions for, and giving the cultureof, all our materials for what is called “subtropical gardening.” Thisnot very happy, not very descriptive name, is adopted from itspopularity only; fortunately for our gardens numbers of subjects notfrom subtropical