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H orticulture: 



September 2S, 1907 



LIBRARY NOTES. 



Auy of the books meutioued in Mr. 

 Payne's reviews can be snpplied at pub- 

 lisliers' priOe from tlie office of Horticul- 

 ture. 



In my last contribution under this 

 heariing, I alluded to the large number 

 of new books on gardening that have 

 recently appeared, but pressure pre- 

 vented mv noticing only a few of those 

 awaitins; notice. I now continue a 

 brlel jeview ot aome of the others 

 which appear 1.0 be likely to Interest 

 the readers of HORTICULTURE who, 

 as Bostonians. must be presumed to 

 have some interest in horticulture be- 

 yond were cultural details. 



After many years' book-collectlaj?, 

 both ancient and modern, I do not re- 

 member ever to have known a period 

 when the publishers of new gardening 

 books have been so actively engaged 

 in their production. The competition 

 seems to be of decided advantage, 

 judging by the general improvement in 

 style and get-up of these new-comers. 



Wild Flowers in Their Seasons, by 

 P. Fdward IJulme (Cassell & Co., Lon- 

 don and New York). This is a dainty 

 volume, small octavo in size. The au- 

 thor is a -n til-known flower painter 

 and writer, and in the volume under 

 notice ht' deals with th.3 wild flowers 

 of this country according to their sea- 

 son, and in regular succe.^sion. There 

 are «0 full-page, nicely colored plates 

 of the most conspicuous and interest- 

 ing British wild floweis. A general in- 

 dex and an index to botanical names 

 are given, which facilitate.? reference, 

 and without which such books ought 

 not, as is sometimes the case, to be 

 published. 



A Concise Handbook of Garden An- 

 nual and Biennial Plants, by C. N. A. 

 Peake iMethnen & Co., London). There 

 is now quite a series of these concise 

 garden handDooks Issued by Messrs. 

 Methuen & Co., of which we have 

 already given brief notices in previous 

 contributions. The contents are ar- 

 ranged as in the other books of the 

 series in alphabetical order, compris- 

 ing name, country of origin, height, 

 s.vnonyms, whether hardy or other- 

 wise, color and description and cul- 

 tural notes. At the eml of the volume, 

 which contains the ftill-paged process- 

 block figures of flowers referred to, is 

 an exhaustive list of synonyms. 



The Book of Rock and Water Gar- 

 dens, by Charles Ihonger (John Lane, 

 London and New York). The series 

 of handbooks of practical gardening is- 

 sued by .Tohn Lane and edited by 

 Harry Roberts now includes 2S vol- 

 umes on different subjects, and it is 

 not surprising that so iiopulai a sub- 

 ject as rock gardens has been dealt 

 with in this very excellent series. 

 Mr. Thonger divides his book into 12 

 distinct chapters which are illustrated 

 with twenty-six views. The titles of 

 his chapters may be briefly mentioned 

 to show tlie scope of the work and are 

 as follows: "Rock and Alpine Gar- 

 dens," "Rock Garden Construction," 

 "The Garden of Alpines." "The Rock 

 Garden In Spring," "Rock Garden 

 Plants." "Rock Shrubs." "Wild Water 

 Margins," "Small Water Gardens," 

 "Bog and Marsh Gardens." "Lily 

 Tanks," "Water Lilies," "Aquatics and 

 Bog Plants." 



l.e dahlia, son histoire, ses pro- 

 gres, sa culture by Rivoire pere 

 et fils (Librairie Horticole, Paris). To 

 our friends of the newly-founded New 

 England Dahlia Society anything no 

 doubt relating to their favorite flower 

 will be welcome. The authors of this 

 little treatise are a well-known firm of 

 nurserymen at Lyons, France. The 

 cultural part of course is Intended for 

 French growers who certainly have not 

 up to the present acquired the same 

 degree of skill in dahlia culture as we 

 have here in England. A very casual 

 acquaintance with English and French 

 dahlia shows easily demonstrates this 

 fact. It is to be hoped that the pub- 

 lication ot this little handbook may 

 help to raise the standard of dahlia 

 culture in France in the same way as 

 the culture of the chrysanthemum has 

 been improved during the past seven 

 years. There Is an excellent article 

 by M. R. Gerard, the eminent botanist 

 of Lyons on the subject of the fertil- 

 ization of the dahlia to which the 

 reader who understands French may be 

 referred. The book is illustrated but 

 compared with the works previously 

 referred to in this column they are 

 poorly executed and more suitable for 

 a nursery catalogue. 



Beautiful Gardens: how to make and 

 maintain them by Walter P. Wright. 

 (Cassell & Co., London and New 

 York). The author of this new bock 

 is a well known prolific writer of pop- 

 ular gardening books and in his latest 

 work bearing the above title he en- 

 deavors to bring the garden and home 

 into the closest possible association. 

 Looking firstly at the work as a mere 

 piece of book making it must be said 

 that "Beautiful Gardens" is turned out 

 in excellent style. The illustrations 

 are numerous and are full paged bur. 

 we should much have preferred to see 

 them in black and white instead of 

 the peculiar bi-ownish, almost sepia 

 tint, in which they are printed. To 

 go at once to the practical part of the 

 contents to which over 300 pages are 

 devoted, we may mention that he gives 

 us thirty interesting chapters on par- 

 ticular subjects: "A Garden Year," a 

 story of real doings in a real garden 

 take.? the reader from JanuaiT to 

 December in its various monthly op- 

 erations, and this is followed by a Gar- 

 den Remembrancer. 



To the amateur, who buys a new 

 house in the suburbs of many of our 

 big towns where the builder has mere- 

 ly left a plot of rough uncultivated 

 ground in the rear this book should 

 serve a useful purpose in one of the 

 most dilHcuIt problems that the in- 

 experienced have to contend with. 

 Many a man in such circumstances and 

 without a practical guide to help him 

 has laid out money in waste only to 

 regret it when the work has been Anal- 

 ly accomplished. With this book in 

 one's hands many unforeseen troubles 

 may be averted. 



The Unhealed Grenhouse by K. L. 

 Davidson (Country Life. Lim'd, Lon- 

 don.) This, like the preceding is a 

 bulky octavo, and the fact of its being 

 published by the Country Life Library 

 is a sufficient guarantee of the high 

 degree of excellence in which the book 

 is got up. The subject treated is one 

 of intense interest to many of the 



small amateur gardeners in this coun- 

 try and elsev.-here. Without knowing, 

 one would hardly think it possible to 

 undertake so much that is likely to be 

 successful and a source of much pleas- 

 ure. The author among many other 

 things treats of plants suitable and un- 

 suitable. The Appendix, occupying 

 about 100 pages, contains useful and 

 instructive lists of plants and flowers 

 blooming at various seasons of the 

 year, hardy foliage plants and flower- 

 ing shrubs, annuals suitable for pot 

 culture, etc. Between 40 and 50 ex- 

 cellent photograph process blocks 

 adorn this very attractive volume. 



Les mei Hours fruits au debut du 

 XXc slecle (National Horticultural 

 Society of France. Paris). Pomology 

 is one of those subjects that must be 

 of peculiar interest to a large number 

 of American horticulturists, as it is 

 to many French ones. We remember 

 the admonition gi'. en by the Chairman 

 at the Annual Dinner of the Society of 

 French Gardeners in London last Janu- 

 ary, when he reminded his hearers of 

 the way in which American apples had 

 invaded the markets ot France, and 

 are not surprised at the recent issue of 

 this very imposing volume. For some 

 time past the Pomological Committee 

 of the National Borficultural Society 

 of France has been engaged on the com- 

 idlation of a work that should be prac- 

 tical and up-to-date, .^s the outcome 

 of the labors of this committee the 

 Society has now for distribution among 

 its members a work numbering over 

 COO oages, in which are given details 

 of the best 2.50 fruits suitable for cul- 

 tivation in France. Like other publi- 

 cations of the Society this work is 

 arranged on a plan that facilitates 

 reference on the part of the reader. 

 The fruits are enumerated in alpha- 

 lietioal Or'der, with name, synonyms, 

 date of introduction when known, do- 

 scription of the tree or plant, and also 

 of the fridt itself. In each cass there 

 is an illustration of the fruit in black 

 and white, accompanied by general ob- 

 servations relating thereto. These de- 

 tails, of couise, occupy thj major por- 

 tion of the volume, but apart from 

 these there are a brief history of po- 

 mology, tables of maturity and the 

 most advisable forms in which to grow 

 the fruits recommended by the Com- 

 mittee. \ery full particulars concern- 

 ing diseases and insect pests with the 

 needful remedies for their extirpation. 

 A copious index concludes the work, 

 the size of which is llin. x 7in 



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