In Your Garden Again

In Your Garden Again is Miss Sackville-West's second gardening book. The first, In Your Garden won immediate and lasting affection and admiration. 'A book no garden lover can afford to miss' was a cliche which understandably found its way into most of the reviews. It surprised the author, but no one else, by the popularity it gained. 'I set out modestly,' writes Miss Sackville-West, 'with the idea of giving some suggestions to the amateur gardener about some unusual plants he might grow -- something his neighbours might not have or might not know about. With very few exceptions, I have written only of plants I know from personal experience. I have tried to cater for all tastes, for the small garden and the not so small, bearing in mind that costs and facilities are no longer what they used to be.' Naturally she has her own preferences and prejudices, and no hesitation in saying so; with the result that her book possesses an individual flavour, as well as being written with the directness and precision of a practical gardener. Book jacket.

Frederick W. Smith The illustrations in this edition of In Your Garden Again have come from a book published in 1837 entitled The Florists Museum: A Register of the Newest and Most Beautiful Varieties of Flowers. They were painted by the Botanical illustrator Frederick W. Smith. Born in 1797, his father, Anker Smith was a miniaturist. His brother E. D. Smith was also a Botanical illustrator who illustrated Sweet's Florists Guide and Sweet's Geraniaceae. Frederick W. Smith illustrated Paxton's Magazine of Botany. From 1835 to 1836 he worked on The Florists Magazine: A Register of the Newest and Most Beautiful Varieties of Flowers. He died in 1836