“The index is full and carefully made. Altogether. this is a most valuable book for the shelves devoted to one’s garden library, in a location handy for reference.” Edith Granger.
| + | Dial. 42: 368. Je. 16, ’07. 590w. |
“There is in it no nonsense of fine writing and poetical quotations.”
| + | Ind. 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w. |
“We should suppose it might remain a standard for many years.”
| + | Lit. D. 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 110w. | |
| + | Nation. 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 110w. |
“It is an intelligent and amplified catalogue of the plants described, and its painstaking sincerity and infinite care of detail should give it a place on the reference shelf of garden books.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 1060w. |
“The beginner in this delightful pursuit would probably find some of the simpler and less exhaustive garden books more helpful and not so bewildering.”