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Title: The English flower garden and home grounds : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935
Subjects: Flower gardening Plants, Ornamental Cottage gardening Gardens
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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e others, like the Witch and Japan Hazels, the Winter-sweet, andthe x^llspice bushes, which, though pretty seen near at hand, do notgive us those definite effects in the garden landscape which it is well toseek if we wish to get out of the fatal jumble of the common shrub-bery. The Escallonias, though very precious in seashore gardens andin the south on warm soils, are apt to go into mourning after hardwinters elsewhere. So many of our island gardens are near the seathat we must not undervalue these shrubs, but a constant sourceof waste is the planting of things not really hardy in districts wherethey perish in hard winters, such as the Arbutus about London and inthe midlands. And, even where things seem hardy, some of them,like Fuchsias, never give the charming effects we get from them inthe west of Ireland, in Wales, and in warm coast gardens, whatevercare we take. Such facts should not discourage, because they onlyemphasise the lesson that the true way in a garden is for each to do
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124 THE ENGLISH FL O VVER GA RDEN. what soil and climate allow of, and in that way we arrive at the mostimportant artistic gain of all, i.e. that each garden has its own distinctcharms. A very lovely group is the Lilacs, much enriched of recent yearsby the introduction of new species and many charming varieties ofthe common old Lilac—lovely plants, worthy of the finest days of ourEnglish spring. Few of the forms found in France seem to thrivein our gardens, owing to grafting on the Privet, which often, aftera year or twos poor bloom, kills the plant and begins to take careof itself How much evil has been done to English ideas of floweringshrubs by thrusting this Privet everywhere! Lilacs, being hardy inall parts of Britain, deserve our best care, and should always begrouped together in the open sun. They should always be boughtfrom nurserymen who raise them from layers or suckers in the goodold way, and should be, once grown up, always kept a little openand free by simple pruning, s

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