Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber’s Note:
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HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL GARDENING—XVIII
EDITED BY HARRY ROBERTS
THE BOOK OF TOPIARY
VIEW IN LEVENS GARDENS SHOWING GARDENER’S HOUSE
THE BOOK OF TOPIARY
BY
CHARLES H. CURTIS, F.R.H.S.
ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE “GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE”; PREVIOUSLY ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS, CHISWICK; AND FORMERLY AT THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW
AND
W. GIBSON
HEAD GARDENER AT LEVENS HALL, WESTMORELAND
“The man who sneers at me for admiring, as I do, a well cut peacock, may take my assurance in advance that I will neither kick him nor abuse him; but pity him I must.”
Shirley Hibberd.
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK. MCMIV
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh
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