The Floral World and Garden Guide, 1867 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Floral World and Garden Guide, 1867 The banks on either s1de of the walls are raised from two to five feet high, and the walks are planted with Stigma procumbens in the bays and recesses, because gravel does not long preserve a sightly appearance in such places, and the Sagina forms a green moss-like growth. In a peaty or sandy soil, mosses would grow freely in such spots but in our heavy clay land, mosses have no beauty. All the walks necessarily used are, of course, gravelled and well kept. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.