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THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PLANT PORTRAITS - Hellyer, A. G. L. - ILLUSTRATIONS OF cultivated plants, showing in alphabetical sequence portraits of hardy and half-hardy plants, tree and shrubs, orchids, ferns, hothouse and greenhouse plants, etc., with a short descriplion of each, For ease of reference there is an Index of common and catalogue names - Editor of Amateur Gardening and never remember the names of plants. Show me a picture and I will tell you whether it is the one I mean. How often I have heard that request or something like it. The demand fbr a picture book of garden flowers is very widespread and very real, and it is for these reasons I have prepared the present volume. Though it contains over Iooo individual portraits, it cannot possibly show all the ornamental plants that rnay be found in gardens, for a modest estimate puts these at more than twenty times that number, without allowing for the vast numbers of varieties of popular plants, such as roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums. What I have tried to do therefore, is to give as representative a selection as possible so that, even though the particular species for which search is being made cannot be found, another similar plant of the same genus will assist the reader in making an identification. Though Plant Portraits is primarily intended as a companion volume to Sanders Encyclopaedia of Gardening, in which all these plants and many more are described, and which gives detailed particulars of their cultivation, nevertheless it can be used as a reference book by itself if so desired. Beneath each picture sufficient information is given to enable the reader to know the colour and height of the plant, its time of flowering and the class to which it belongs i.e. annual................... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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