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Shire Library no. 780.

ISBN-13: 978 0 74781 327 9
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My thanks to Philip Norman at the Garden Museum for all his help with the illustrations, to Rebecca Graham at Nymans, to Shirley Courtney at Writtle College, and to Linda Cousins for her discerning comments on the text.

I would like to thank the following people who have allowed me to use illustrations:

Andrea Jones/Garden Exposures Picture Library, page 32 (bottom); Bridgeman Art Library, page 48; National Portrait Gallery, page 20 (top); reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (KGU/1/9/3/262), page 42; RHS Images, page 54; Writtle College, page 36.

All other images courtesy of the Garden Museum.

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