Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs

"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs" by Angus D. Webster is a guide from the late 1800s that encourages gardeners to plant a wider variety of flowering trees and shrubs instead of always using the same popular ones; the author points out that there are lots of strong, beautiful, but not well-known plants that are easy to grow. The book starts with an introduction that explains its reason for being, promoting the use of more types of flowering trees and shrubs because there were not enough books about them at the time. Webster explains that horticulture is moving away from coniferous trees and is taking renewed interest in flowering plants, emphasizing how important it is to properly name and categorize plants. With over thirteen hundred plants and organized alphabetically, the book provides cultivation tips and flowering schedules to help gardeners succeed.