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Excerpt from The Floral Magazine, 1862, Vol. 2: Comprising Figures and Descriptions of Popular Garden Flowers If there be one word which more than another has increased in value in the gardening world, it is that of hardy; and when we can prefix to it perfectly, the flower so designated at once establishes its character. The last winter was so fatal in most places to the fairest productions of our parterres and shrub beries; before that terrible frost, following the wet and sunless summer, plants and flowers we had long ceased to think of as tender, fell in such multitudes, that many despair of ever seeing their gardens as they were previously. When the choicest Roses and the finest Conifers, nay, when our universal favou rite the Laurustinus, and even (as at Elvaston) our common English Holly, were killed to the ground, we can thoroughly understand how much gardeners will prize anything which can be pronounced as perfectly hardy. It 1s this, as well as their intrinsic beauty, that gives such importance to those rare and beautiful variegated plants sent home by Mr. Fortune from Japan, and that, for the same reasons, will make the plant we now figure so very desirable. 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.