This comprehensive guide to ornamental shrubs and trees takes a comprehensive look at the subject and will delight the professional and amateur gardener alike. Contents Include: Hardy Trees and Shrubs The American Garden Descriptive List Hardy Conifers The Best Conifers Sea-side Planting Trees for Chalk Soils Trees for Towns. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience."

This guide will prove of much interest to the modern gardener. Illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams. Contents Include: Need for Transplanting; Season for Transplanting; How to Transplant; Pruning of Large Trees; Pruning of Old or Sickly Trees; Pruning of Shrubs; Root Pruning. Tools; Cutting Instruments; Instruments used in Laying out Ground Lines; Machines and other Accessories; Utensils; Miscellaneous Articles. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.