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Title: The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers

And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England

Author: Harry Roberts

Release Date: April 18, 2015 [eBook #48740]

Language: English

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HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL GARDENING—IV

EDITED BY HARRY ROBERTS

THE BOOK OF OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS

[ii] [iii]

AN OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN

Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh.

TO HOMELY UNAFFECTED PEOPLE WHO APPRECIATE HOMELY UNASSUMING FLOWERS

"The precious metals are not often found at the surface of the earth."—Sir Arthur Helps

"I speak with the lowliest of the meadow flowers as readily as with the highest fir-trees."—Heine[viii]

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