Familiar Garden Flowers

Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

Preface

4 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

Preface (LIGHT words are at times more)

LIGHT words are at times more serviceable than learned lines, and persuasions are often more effective than arguments. This is especially…

Preface (THIS is the preface)

THIS is the preface to the Third Series of this work, and it seems to be necessary to say something. And yet if you will just turn from…

Preface (ANOTHER bouquet Yes there)

ANOTHER bouquet! Yes, there are four seasons at least in the year, and from the proper flowery point of view as many seasons as days, nay…

Preface (Presenting the fifth bouquet)

IN presenting the fifth bouquet of flowers from the home garden, occasion is made for returning thanks for the generous manner in which…

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