BY
CHARLES H. CURTIS, F.R.H.S.
ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE “GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE”; PREVIOUSLY ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S GARDENS, CHISWICK; AND FORMERLY AT THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW
AND
W. GIBSON
HEAD GARDENER AT LEVENS HALL, WESTMORELAND
“The man who sneers at me for admiring, as I
do, a well cut peacock, may take my assurance
in advance that I will neither kick him nor
abuse him; but pity him I must.”
Shirley Hibberd.
JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK. MCMIV