Excerpt from Market Nursery Work, Vol. 6: A Series of Six Books on the Cultivation of Crops for Market; Decorative Plants, Trees and Shrubs With the strongest possible desire to render this, our final volume, as little like to a catalogue as possible, we shall have to refer to such a large number of plants, shrubs and trees, in varying classes, as to make the fulfilment of that desire, to say the least, difficult. The subject matter of the following pages is not in any sense a mere gathering together of fragments, but deals, as a whole, with departmental subjects of primary importance to any general nursery, and it is only as a matter of convenience that we are classing them together under the cognomen Decorative or Ornamental. By far the most important of these are those shrubs and trees which are so generally used in the furnishing and decoration of outside grounds and gardens and for which there is an increasing and constant demand. We feel, too, that this department has been some what neglected by the writers of manuals, who have more often dealt much fuller with indoor decorative pot plants than with outdoor and more permanent subjects, presumably because they appealed most. As a fair test of the great part ornamental trees and shrubs play in the business of a nurseryman, we would invite any interested enquirer to pay a visit to some well-appointed nursery and note for himself the amount of space allotted to them and the care taken of them. Rule out all forest and fruit trees and roses, you shall find that practically everything else would come into this class. 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.