Excerpt from Flowers: For the Parlor and Garden The present time, however, seems fitting to issue the Work in an enlarged form, with additions which bring its pages up to the horticultural standard of the present day. This has been done by the addition of three new chap ters, in which will be found concise notices of many new and rare plants, as well as notes on improved methods of cultivation. 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.