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Excerpt from The Ladies' Flower-Garden: Annuals It has long been my intention to publish a series of works, which, when completed, should contain coloured groups of all the most ornamental flowers in British gardens, as well those grown under glass, as in the open air. The present work, which is the first of this series, comprises the hardy and half-hardy annuals; and the second will contain all the hardy and half-hardy bulbs. These will be followed by the biennials and perennials; the greenhouse and hothouse plants; the orchidaceæ and the cacti; the roses and other ornamental shrubs; and, lastly, the ornamental flowering-trees. Each work will be complete in itself, so that the proprietor of a small town-garden, who can grow only annuals or bulbs, need only purchase the volume, or volumes, containing the plants he feels inclined to cultivate: while the proprietor of a greenhouse, or of any kind of hothouse, by purchasing the volumes containing the plants for each, may see at one glance the most ornamental flowers suitable for his purpose, and obtain directions for their culture. Besides this, as each work will be arranged according to the natural system, the whole series will form a more comprehensive illustration of the kind of plants belonging to the different orders, than any other work which has yet been published; and it will therefore be very useful in giving young people general ideas of the arrangement of plants, and thus facilitating their study of botany. 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.