Excerpt from The Floral World and Garden Guide: January, 1869 In giving a few hints upon the management of the subtropical garden, we are desirous it should be understood that this style of gardening is not so well adapted for small places as for large. The main point is to study the convenience there may be for growing the plants through the early stages of their existence, and for preserving during winter those that are best worth keeping. It is by no means a wise proceeding where there are but one or two beds, to fill them with such strong-growing subjects as the castor oil and tobacco plants. These should be grown in quantity where there is plenty of room, and there used to give effect to plants of smaller size. For the small garden there are many choice plants more suitable for beds which come close under the eye. As most of the plants employed in this system are natives of warmer climates than ours, a little labour is necessary to form the beds, so that the roots obtain the greatest amount of warmth possible from the limited amount of sun-heat. Now to afford the plants the advantage of a genial warmth without employing artificial heat, a better plan cannot be well adopted than that of Mr. Gibson, at Battersea Park. We might write a long dissertation on the why and wherefore of this, possibly with advantage to many of our readers, but we refrain because of our insufficient space. 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.