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100 1 _aRoberts, Harry,
_d1871-1946
245 1 4 _aThe Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers :
_bAnd Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2015
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aHandbooks of practical gardening, 4
500 _aRelease date is 2015-04-18
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFlower gardening -- England
653 _aGardening -- England
700 1 _aRoskruge, Ethel
830 0 _aHandbooks of practical gardening, 4
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48740
999 _c89579
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