Excerpt from Irish Gardening, Vol. 12 The nailing down of species after species allowed of more attention being paid to difficult and Obscure plants, and these were also mastered one after another, as one grew more expert. Access to botanical literature became more important, and eventually I found it best to get typed out the original description, and other full descriptions of every known species, except where I had already easy access to the books concerned. The magnificent botanical libraries at Kew and the British Museum furnished the materials necessary to do this completely. The present state of the business on which I entered so lightly is that my whole list of some plants grown or examined fresh has boiled down to about 130 species, to which must be added about 15 Species more which still await identification. Some Of these - notably tho e contained in an interesting package of seed kindly collected in Yunnan by Rev. Father E. E. Maire - are still immature; others have not yet been induced to flower, in spite of efforts at home kindly supplemented by others at Kew, Wisley. And Glasnevin. Another season will, it is hoped, suffice to run down most of these, when they will be, like all those which have preceded them, figured by my friend Miss E. Barnes, and a full description drawn up. So far eight Species new to science have been definitely recognised, and these have been named and are about to be described in the Journal of Botany. The material still remaining will undoubtedly yield some more new species, and when this is worked out the full results, with a figure of every species found to be in cultivation, will be presented to the Royal Horticultural Society for publication. I shall conclude by saying that the study of the Sedums proved quite absorbingly interesting, although most people would not consider them as being a very interesting group; I am sure a similar study Of any Of the other numerous garden genera which stand in need of revision would prove equally fascinating, and I would cordially urge my readers to try Specialising in, some group which is in need Of similar attention I can assure them that I have found it the most exhilarating sport that can be imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.