Excerpt from Beautiful Flowering Trees and Shrubs for British and Irish Gardens Besides assisting the reader to make a selection of trees and shrubs that may be suitable for his par ticular garden, it is hoped that it will also be found of great use in the hands of those nurserymen who have incurred enormous expense, not only in sending collectors to all parts of the world in search of beautiful plants, but in the cultivation, propagation. 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.