Excerpt from Transactions of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, Vol. 1: A. D. 1894-95 I assert deliberately, and of personal knowledge, that your Library now comprises all Horticultural literature extant, of sterling authority or worth, with a minimum of printed rubbish. It was never the aim of the Committee to waste your substance, or to lumber up space by a portentous load of mere black-letter. If endowed with a Stickney Fund, it might be practicable, were it desirable, to accumulate works that are simply curious because of age or rarity, and rare or old because there was never enough demand for them to require a new edition. No one can say that your Committee ever declined to buy a book that commended itself to their judgment, when its purchase was once suggested. 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.