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IT is not too much to say that the best part of the present book is its cover. The binder has certainly performed his part well, and produced a pretty-looking book, but we must look no further than the cover for a word of eulogy. We have only to turn over the fly-sheet o read the title-page, and we are startled by an extraordinary gaudily-coloured plate, which suggests a design or a patchwork counterpane, but which, upon closer examination, turns out to be one for a bulb garden. With his we are not prepossessed; and the next coloured plate still further lessens our appreciation of the author's artistic taste. We leave the plates and turn to the text, in the hope of finding the literary character of the book such as to make amends for its artistic shortcomings; but still we are disappointed, for, when we find such plants as Dielytra, Tritoma, Lychnis fulgens, the Helebores, &c., classed as bulbs, we are inclined to ask, Does the author know what a bulb is?
The Bulb Garden; or, How to Cultivate Bulbous and Tuberous-rooted Flowering Plants to Perfection
By Samuel Wood. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Co. 1878.)
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The Bulb Garden; or, How to Cultivate Bulbous and Tuberous-rooted Flowering Plants to Perfection . Nature 18, 693 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018693d0
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