"This handsome volume, which contains fifty-four plates of superb quality, is by an acknowledged expert in the cultivation and care of flowers, and above all in their use for decoration. Joan Groves clearly describes how to make the best combinations of form and color-arresting, elegant, or simple-from the flowers available to the reader at each season of the year."-from the back cover. Includes an index.

(Key Words: Garden, herbs, herb garden, green thumb, flowers, decoration, house).