It is beautifully illustrated.
"This book," says its author in her preface, "is the outcome of a life-long search for a volume with which one might make a little journey into the garden, and become acquainted with the dwellers therein; their native land, their life history, their structural affiliations.
"Among the many species of a genus it has often been necessary to select but one for description. As a rule the choice has been either the typical form, or the one longest in cultivation, or the greatest favorite.
"While it has been the aim to make the book a fairly complete study of all the annual and perennial flowering herbs commonly found in a hardy garden, it is by no means intended to be a catalogue."
Full of practical, tested, systematically arranged, and well indexed information.
Transcriber's Notes
Moved some illustrations to paragraph breaks.
Page [ix]: Corrected listing Preface to page v instead of vii.
Page [xi]: Corrected order of plate listings XX. and XXI.
Page [48]: Corrected GOLDIE'S FERN reference page to 174 instead of 175.