Illustrated by 86 drawings.
The first edition of this book was prepared in a hurry during the hot summer of 1941, under conditions far from ideal; it was written and compiled in the evenings after very busy and long days of preparation for a possible siege of the Colony. The book was scrappy and inaccurate in consequence. Something of the kind was, however, needed as shewn by the fact that the edition was sold out in the course of a few weeks...
- Introduction by the author
Sample pages
DEDICATION
With grateful thanks to:
Miss Julia Lam, Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke,
Mr. T. Lunson, Mr. Andrew Tse
who made this book possible by supplying me with seeds and
drawing materials…
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The war came and one of its consequences was the complete loss of a
thirteen years' collection of notes. drawings and bulletins and of a repre-
sentative library on tropical gardening.
This second edition has largely been written during a sojourn of 43
months in the Civilian Internment Camp at Stanley, during which period
ample time was…