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THERE appears to be no lull in the demand for books on gardening if one may judge from the voluminous output of this class of article. It would seem scarcely possible nowadays for anyone not to be able to grow flowers, so clear are the directions and particulars given in numerous manuals. The book before us deals entirely with annual and biennial plants in the form of a glorified nurseryman catalogue. By de-describing it in this way, however, it is not sought to detract from the merits of the work, though it may be remarked in passing that the numerous illustrations, six of which are in colour, are so far inferior to those in the catalogues of our leading seedsmen that they might have been omitted with advantage.
Annual and Biennial Garden Plants: Their Value and Uses, with Full Instructions for their Cultivation.
By A. E. Speer. Pp. xx+256. (London: John Murray, 1911.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Annual and Biennial Garden Plants: Their Value and Uses, with Full Instructions for their Cultivation . Nature 86, 346 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086346b0
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