02438cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000310011324500980014426400510024230000470029333600260034033700260036633800360039249000400042850000310046850802320049952011640073153400450189565300320194065300250197270000200199783000400201785600430205748740UtSlPG20260610134124.0mcr n260607r2015||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aSB1 aRoberts, Harry,d1871-194614aThe Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers :bAnd Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2015  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aHandbooks of practical gardening, 4  aRelease date is 2015-04-18  aE-text prepared by Louise Pryor, Petra A, David Garcia, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com)  a"The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers" by Harry Roberts is a gardening handbook written in the early 20th century. This guide aims to teach horticulturists, particularly novices, the principles of successfully cultivating hardy, traditional flowering plants that flourish outdoors in England. With a focus on old-fashioned varieties, the book evokes nostalgia for the beloved blooms often found in charming cottage gardens and vicarage settings.  The opening of the book sets the tone by acknowledging the importance of practical experience in gardening while asserting that intelligent readers can benefit greatly from well-written guides. Roberts emphasizes the appeal of informal gardens filled with a mix of flourishing, old-fashioned flowers, contrasting them with the rigid and artificial designs often seen in more formal gardens. He introduces the notion that true beauty in gardening comes not just from a careful arrangement of plants, but from the harmonious growing of flowers that feel naturally at home in their environment, each contributing to a sense of peace and relaxation in one’s garden space. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aFlower gardening -- England  aGardening -- England1 aRoskruge, Ethel 0aHandbooks of practical gardening, 440uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48740