Excerpt from Putnam's Garden Handbook No country in the world is quite so well adapted to the culture of flowers as America. Even in the crowded city, flowers are possible. The conditions of growing them are more trying but still they can be grown, and in the city the efforts required to produce them will receive far more appreciation than in the country or suburbs. Then why should not Americans have gardening for their art? We have unlimited space; we have a wonderful variety of climatic and soil conditions, suitable for a wide variety of flowers, and somewhere in this country flowers of every known species can be grown. Every flower is worthy of cultivation. 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.