The Subtropical Garden: Or Beauty of Form in the Flower Garden (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Subtropical Garden: Or Beauty of Form in the Flower Garden

This book is written with a view to assist the newly awakened taste for something more than mere colour in the flower-garden, by enumerating, describing, indicating the best positions for, and giving the culture of, all our materials for what is called subtropical gardening. This not very happy, not very descriptive name, is adopted from its popularity only; fortunately for our gardens numbers of subjects not from subtropical climes may be employed with great advantage. Subtropical gardening means the culture of plants with large and graceful or remarkable foliage or habit, and the associa tion of them with the usually low-growing and brilliant flowering-plants now so common in our gardens, and which frequently eradicate every trace of beauty of form therein, making the flower-garden a thing of large masses Of colour only.

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