Excerpt from About Trees, Shrubs, and Climbing Plants, for South Africa, Concise Hints on the Making of Farm Plantations, Shrubberies South africa is very young. Experience in Arboriculture and Horticulture is accumulating but slowly For many years yet our local experiences and temporary results will be subject to keen. Criticism. What is really practical work in one district may be quite impracticable in another, so varied are our climatic and Other conditions, It is quite wrong to state dogmatically that any plant will not do well in South Africa, even although such plant has failed in a particular position over a series of years, We don't know enough to enable us to dogmatize in any way. 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.