Front matter
Reading edition
OTHER BEAUTIFUL BOOKS
ON FLOWERS AND GARDENS
Each containing full-page illustrations in
colour similar to those in this volume
Flowers and Gardens of Japan
Alpine Flowers and Gardens
British Floral Decoration
Dutch Bulbs and Gardens
Flowers and Gardens of Madeira
The Garden that I Love
Gardens of England
Kew Gardens
A. & C. BLACK, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON
THE CHARM OF GARDENS
AGENTS
AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64 & 66 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK
AUSTRALASIA THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
205 Flinders Lane, MELBOURNE
CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LTD.
St. Martin’s House, 70 Bond Street, TORONTO
INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY LTD.
Macmillan Building, BOMBAY
309 Bow Bazaar Street, CALCUTTA
THE LAKE GARDEN AYSCOUGH FEE HALL, SPALDING.
THE
CHARM OF GARDENS
BY
DION CLAYTON CALTHROP
WITH THIRTY-TWO FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
PUBLISHED BY . 4 SOHO SQUARE
ADAM & CHARLES LONDON . . W.
BLACK . . . . MCMXI . . . .
The illustrations in this volume have been selected
from volumes in Black’s Series of Beautiful Books
TO
F. M. MARSDEN
WITHOUT WHOSE HELP THIS BOOK COULD
NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
FROM
HER AFFECTIONATE
SON-IN-LAW
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