Alpines and Bog-Plants #244727

I will not apologise, this time, for inviting enthusiasts to accompany me round my little territories: for so large a company was kindly enough to take pleasure in My Rock-Garden, that now I am sure that those who enjoyed the earlier book will be pleased to find, in this volume, all the treasured rarities and delights which pressure of space forbade me to include in its predecessor — or, rather, forced me, with bitter lamentations, to excise from its mutilated pages. With all the more joy, then, do I offer this timely reparation, no less to my friends who read than to my friends who are written of — to the countless omitted beauties of my garden, whom I had seemed to pass over in an ungrateful silence.