Excerpt from The New Gardening a Guide to the Most Recent, Developments in the Culture of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables The aim of the present work is to bring within the scope of an inexpensive volume the most recent developments in gardening, not, however, to touch on them merely in a perfunctory way, but to give copious cultural and prac tical details alike as to designing and planting gardens, arranging and growing plants, shrubs, and trees, and describing new and improved species, varieties, and hybrids. The book is therefore a guide as well as a record. An endeavour has been made to impart a literary. 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.