The Garden Under Glass

A FOREWORD It is no easy matter for the author to decide how best to treat this portion of the work. Several courses are open to him, the easiest being to treat in alphabetical order all plants grown in the greenhouse. This method, however, I have dismissed as being too elementary and too tedious and lacking in interest alike for reader and author. I have preferred to pick out first of all the best flowering plants and then the best foliage plants and to treat them at some length, leaving a chapter giving brief and concise cultural information on such subjects as the minority may choose to grow. This will serve my purpose in another way, for readers are, I imagine, more likely to try their cultural skill on the plants to which prominence is given and which will most assuredly give good returns for good treatment. Having achieved success with these, they will be better equipped with knowledge, enthusiasm and experience to tackle other subjects to which their tastes may ineline them. Notes are given on the plants most useful for a given purpose, while I have also decided to deal separately with bulbs for forcing, with plants for forcing, with outside plants which are flowered in the greenhouse, and with the raising of annuals and biennials for planting in the outside garden. It is difficult to draw clear lines of distinc-tion in this matter, for a plant which one may consider all-important another despises. However, my aim is 37