A detailed guide to planting and maintaining a variety of hardy plants in a garden including herbaceous perennials annuals shrub plants and evergreen trees. First published in 1851 this volume contains a detailed guide to planting and maintaining a variety of hardy plants in a garden including herbaceous perennials annuals shrub plants and evergreen trees. Clear and concise this handy little guide will prove invaluable to anyone wishing to introduce hardy ornamental plants into their gardens. Contents include: Annuals Cultivation of Annuals Sowing Seed of Annuals Biennials Culture of Biennials Descriptive list of Bulbs directions for flowering in glasses Flowers the importance of their cultivation Flowers Selecting for the flower-garden Flowers Old-Fashioned do Flower-garden laying out Flowering Plants selection of etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable modern high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.