Project Gutenberg 2015-04-18 Public domain in the USA. 244 Roberts, Harry 1871 1946 Roskruge, Ethel The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers And Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England Handbooks of practical gardening, 4 E-text prepared by Louise Pryor, Petra A, David Garcia, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com) "The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers" by Harry Roberts is a gardening handbook written in the early 20th century. This guide aims to teach horticulturists, particularly novices, the principles of successfully cultivating hardy, traditional flowering plants that flourish outdoors in England. With a focus on old-fashioned varieties, the book evokes nostalgia for the beloved blooms often found in charming cottage gardens and vicarage settings. The opening of the book sets the tone by acknowledging the importance of practical experience in gardening while asserting that intelligent readers can benefit greatly from well-written guides. Roberts emphasizes the appeal of informal gardens filled with a mix of flourishing, old-fashioned flowers, contrasting them with the rigid and artificial designs often seen in more formal gardens. He introduces the notion that true beauty in gardening comes not just from a careful arrangement of plants, but from the harmonious growing of flowers that feel naturally at home in their environment, each contributing to a sense of peace and relaxation in one’s garden space. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 64.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Flower gardening -- England Gardening -- England SB Text Category: How To ... Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals 231794 2025-08-19T13:24:59.226046 text/html 212092 2024-10-24T17:17:26 text/html 759985 2025-08-19T13:25:04.461009 application/epub+zip 757950 2025-08-19T13:25:00.220069 application/epub+zip 158469 2025-08-19T13:24:59.721039 application/epub+zip 829836 2025-08-19T13:25:07.590017 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 796899 2025-08-19T13:25:03.952045 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 199809 2022-09-22T06:36:32.236720 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 192231 2025-08-19T13:24:58.585048 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 172213 2024-10-24T17:17:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16483 2025-08-19T13:25:07.746992 application/rdf+xml 28186 2025-08-19T13:24:59.820040 image/jpeg 4016 2025-08-19T13:24:59.771025 image/jpeg 686898 2025-08-19T13:24:59.271066 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog