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Historical Garden Books: Gardening illustrated: A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners by W. (William) Robinson (1879) – 37 in a Series

Historical Garden Books:  Gardening illustrated: A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners by W. (William) Robinson (1879) - 37 in a SeriesHistorical Garden Books:  Gardening illustrated: A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners by W. (William) Robinson (1879) - 37 in a Series

Historical Garden Books:  Gardening illustrated: A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners by W. (William) Robinson (1879) - 37 in a SeriesHistorical Garden Books:  Gardening illustrated: A weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners by W. (William) Robinson (1879) - 37 in a Series

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A Weekly Journal for Amateurs and Gardeners.

FOUNDED BY W. ROBINSON, ;

Author of “ The English Flower Garden “ The Wild Garden “ Hardy Flowers “Alpine Flowers efrc. Founder of “ The Garden ” “Farm and Home.”

“ You See, Sweet Maid, We Marry A Gentle Scion To The Wildest Stock And Make Conceive A Bark Of Baser. Kind By Bi D Of Nobler. Race : Change It Rather ; But The Art Itself Is Nature.” — Shakespeare.

“Call The Vales And Bid Them Hither Cast Their Bells And Flowerets Of A Thousand Hues.” — Milton.

YOL. XIV., FEBRUARY 25, 1893.

London :

OFFICE 37, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 

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