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Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them

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THIS work will take a high place amongst recent publications dealing with the popular and fascinating art of floriculture. The authors have made a selection of the best and most beautiful flowers for cultivation in the garden and greenhouse. These flowers, numbering 100 in all, are illustrated in full-page coloured plates, which are excellent reproductions of flower paintings by such well-known artists as Beatrice Parsons, Eleanor Fortescue Brick-dale, Anna Lea-Merritt, Hugh L. Norris, Lilian Stannard, Margaret Waterfield, A. Fairfax Muckley, and Francis E. James.

Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them.

By Horace J. Wright Walter P. Wright. Pp. 198. (Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, n.d.) Published in seventeen parts at 1s. each, or two volumes at 10s. 6d. each.

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Beautiful Flowers and how to Grow Them . Nature 82, 123–124 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082123a0

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