Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Shirley Hibberd

Born: 1825
Died: 1890  (aged 65)
Bio: James Shirley Hibberd was one of the most popular and successful gardening writers of the Victorian era. He was a best-selling editor of three gardening magazines, including Amateur Gardening, the only nineteenth century gardening magazine still being published today.
Known for:
- Familiar garden flowers (1879)
 - Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (1856)
 - The Rose Book (1864)
 






