Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers—Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies is a horticulture and gardening book by John Wood, published in 1884 in London by L. Upcott Gill.

[1] The book consists of descriptions of common British flowers, organized alphabetically by their scientific name.

[2] The book was put online by the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation in 2006.

[1] A review in Nature was lukewarm, expressing reservations about the bulk, cost, and spelling mistakes of the work.

[2] The Athenaeum was more positive, excusing mistakes because "the book has no pretensions to be a scientific treatise.