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"The authenticity of this paean to Victorian garden fashion is unimpeachable...If you want advice on which 'paintbox' annuals (and tender perennials treated as annuals) were popular a century and more ago, this book's 'A to Z Cottage Garden Annuals' describes and pictures dozens of them! There is also advice, based on both historical documentation and practical requirements, about arranging and caring for these plants. Lane includes brief biographies of four luminaries in the history of cottage gardening...lists of commercial seed sources and flower societies, and books for further reading (such as his own "Cottage Gardener's Companion..."-- "HORTIDEAS. 160 pages (all in color), 7 3/4 x 10 1/4.