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Title: Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens

Author: Ernest Thomas Cook

Release Date: June 24, 2010 [EBook #32969]

Language: English

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TREES AND SHRUBS FOR ENGLISH GARDENS

[Illustration: _THE CLUSTER PINE (Pinus Pinaster)._]

_THE "COUNTRY LIFE"
LIBRARY._

TREES & SHRUBS

FOR

ENGLISH GARDENS

BY

E. T. COOK.

SECOND EDITION.

[Illustration]

PUBLISHED BY

"COUNTRY LIFE" GEORGE NEWNES, LTD.
20, TAVISTOCK STREET, 7-12, SOUTHAMPTON STREET,
COVENT GARDEN, W.C. COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
1908.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

It cannot be urged against this work that it travels along a path
already well worn, for the subject of trees and shrubs for English
gardens, though almost inexhaustible, has never been so fully treated
and illustrated as it deserves. The book may have many defects, but its
pages will show that an honest effort has been made to offer helpful and
instructive information to the many who wish to know more of the beauty
of trees and shrubs.

In writing this book, the labour of my spare hours for many months, I
have been greatly helped by Mr. Bean, the assistant-curator of the Royal
Gardens, Kew, whose deep knowledge of the subject has been willingly
imparted; and by Miss Jekyll, to whom I am indebted for many valuable
suggestions and notes. Among others to whom grateful thanks are tendered
are Mrs. Davidson, Mr. J. Clark, Mr. Dallimore, and Mr. S. W.
Fitzherbert.

Some of the chapters have already appeared in the _Garden_, with the
object of making known as widely as possible the importance of the most
beautiful trees and shrubs for English woodland and pleasure-grounds.

The illustrations will show how a shrub, so often stunted and mutilated
by unwise pruning, becomes beautiful when allowed to develop naturally.

The illustrations ha