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Excerpt from Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gardening, Vol. 1: An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Practical Horticulture for All Classes Its illustrations comprise practical as well as ornamental figures, showing almost every operation of the garden. Its language is absolutely free from technicalities. An attempt has been made to show plain gardening with no resources but those of the English language. Attention is called to some of the omissions. After careful consideration the deriva tions of generic names have been left out in order to make room for more cultural matter. For gardening purposes they are mostly useless, and a very large number are inconceivably stupid. Cimicifuga, from cimex, a bug, and fugo, to drive away, in allusion to its supposed virtue. Admirable, no doubt, but the horticulturist would rather leave his Cimicifugas in the garden when he contemplated a stay at an Arab hotel, and trust to Keating's insect powder. At the same time, the meaning of a very large number of Latin and other specific names and phrases will be given in the Glossary. 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.