Excerpt from Studies in Gardening
There may be, there will be those to whom a few matters of individual taste in these pages may not commend themselves. This would be always so, whoever wrote, whoever read. The point to be noticed is this: the taste of the author of "Studies in Gardening" is with rare exceptions based on principles and, therefore, cannot but be sound.
When one reflects upon the lack of knowledge of the principles of gardening among our own amateurs one feels more keenly the need of such a leaven as this book affords. General enlightenment on the great subject is our instant want; more study of the broader aspects of the gardening art, enlivening this of course by constant excursions into the lovely realm of flower, shrub, and tree, matters of garden enclosure and garden decoration.
It will be noticed that among the plant subjects considered in the present volume there are some not to be recommended for our Northern States for reasons of soil and climate. It has seemed wise to leave these names unchanged, adding on occasion an explanatory note. Many of these plants flourish in our Northern Pacific States as in England, and of certain parts of the South and Southwest the same may be said. The difference in climate with regard to time of bloom of plants dealt with here makes the suggestion fitting that the reader allow a date one month later for the latitude of Boston.
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