U U li T 1(J U L TU R E 



January 26, 1918 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



An liitruilurtlon to llie Study of 

 Liindscape Dosigu. Ity Iloury Vincent 

 Hubbard and Theodora Kimball. With 

 12 full pugo Illustrations including 

 plans, and U illustrations in the text. 

 Cloth, largo 8vo. $6.00. The Macinlllan 

 Company, publishers. 



To do Justice to a book such as 

 this in any brief notice is practically 

 Impossible. The publishers' claim that 

 "this book, just published, oilers the 

 first comprehensive treatment of land- 

 scape architecture ever brought out," 

 Is convincingly impressed upon the 

 reader who peruses its pages. There 

 Is no slavish obeisance to any 

 "school." no egotistical controversy, 

 but a vast treasury of information and 

 inspiration for the lover of nature and 

 gardening — a thoughtful, unbiased 

 enunciation of the fundamental prin- 

 ciples of sincerity, congruity and good 

 taste in the appreciation of beauty 

 and the creation of beauty; a broad 

 gauge and scholarly work in which 

 pure horticulture has not been pushed 

 into the background by homage to 

 "formality," and with reverence for 

 Nature as its keynote and the "why 

 and wherefore" running through and 

 underlying every chapter. 



The authors acknowledge that they 

 "are well aware that no designer was 

 ever made by the study of theory 

 alone and that most of the essential 

 fire of emotion in appreciation and 

 design is forever untransmutable into 

 written words," yet this eloquent work 

 will surely prove a w^ell-spring of well- 

 founded, practical knowledge. The 

 authors' analysis of the aesthetic prin- 

 ciples of landscape design is striking- 

 ly original in conception and so also 

 are their practical suggestions for the 

 working out of every problem, and 

 every open-minded gardener who 

 reads the hook will be immeasurably 

 benefited thereby. It is refreshing to 

 find a modern author on landscape 

 work who does not seem to place 

 planting design as subsidiary and 

 tributary to architecture but accords 

 to this department of garden art its 

 rightful dignity. There are countless 

 instances where the architect has out- 

 raged the beauty and grandeur of a 

 landscape by imposing upon it struc- 

 tures and treatment entirely foreign 

 to and out of harmony with its char- 

 acter. 



Following is a list of the titles of 

 the various chapters: 



Chapter I — Introduction: II — Theory 

 of Landscape Design; III --Taste. 

 Ideals. Style and Character in Land- 

 scape Design; IV — Styles of Land- 

 scape Design; V — Landscape Charac- 

 ters; VI — Landscape Effects; VII — 

 Landscape Composition; VIII — Natu- 

 ral Forms of Ground, Rock and Water 

 as Elements in Design; IX — Planting 

 Design; X — Design of Structures in 

 Relation to Landscape; XI — Tvpes of 

 Landscape Designs: Part I— The Oar- 

 den; Part II— The Estate; Part III— 

 Land Subdivision for Residential Pur- 

 poses; Part IV — Landscape Parks and 

 Reservations. Aopendix: Part I — 

 Notes on the Profes?ional Practice of 

 Landscape Architecture in America; 

 Part 11 — Notes on Procedure in De- 

 sign: Selected List of References on 

 Landscape Architecture. Following 

 the Appendix is a series of typical 



WILLIAM PLUMB IN ACTION. 



The prospfrou.s looking giiitl.'inan 

 in the center of the accompanying pic- 

 ture will be readily recognized by a 

 host of ui-quaintances as William 

 Plumb, formerly of .\<!w York, now of 

 Cuba, where the worries of zero 

 wi'uther and coal famine never In- 

 trude. The scene depleted Is not laid, 



as some might imagine, on the deck of 

 a torpedo destroyer but in the pros- 

 pective oil fields where the company 

 of which Mr. Plumb is president, has 

 set up well drilling machinery and 

 hope to strike oil in such quantities 

 that coal for heating will be super- 

 seded and the coal bin rendered as 

 useless as a last year's birdsnest. 



plannings with suggestive lists of 

 plants for same. 



A vast number of topics are covered 

 in each of the chapters, and these sub- 

 headings appear in commendably con- 

 venient form in the margins of the 

 pages. As giving an idea of the scope 

 of each chapter w« give a summary 

 of the leading topics in the chapter on 

 Landscape Composition — Order in 

 compo.sition. objective and subjective. 

 Segregation of the composition. Unity 

 and attention. The forms of order in 

 composition. Characteristics of ob- 

 jects in landscape composition. Shape, 

 size, scale and distance. Texture. 

 Color, light and shade. Atmosphere 

 and atmospheric perspective. Illu- 

 sions in composition. Pictorial en- 

 framement, foregrounds, backgrounds 

 and planes of distance. Objects in 

 landscape composition according to 

 their design value. 



Again in Chapter IX we find the fol- 

 lowing among the topics covered: 

 Planting Design — Relation of planting 

 design and maintenance. Plant forms. 

 Plant texture. Plant color. Use of 

 colored foliaee. Practical difficulties 

 of design in flower color. Plant char- 

 acter. Association and symbolism. 

 Outline, modeling and treatment of 

 plantations. Hedges. Specimen trees 

 and shrubs. Tree and shrub groups. 

 Herbaceous beds and borders. Ar- 

 rangement of plants in relation to time 

 of bloom. Planting as a surface deco- 



ration. Carpet bedding and parterres. 

 Planting In rel:itlon to topography. 

 Planting in relation to architectural 

 structures, etc. 



The book itself is a volume of re- 

 markable beauty, printed on a special 

 paper, with 46 original penand Ink 

 drawings and :ttj full-page photographs. 

 .Many of these Illustrations are of old- 

 world masterpieces of landscape art, 

 some of Impressive natural scenery 

 and others well-chosen modern exam- 

 ples, among the latter being a num- 

 ber of suggestive views In Franklin 

 Park,' Boston. 



Horticulture Publishing Company 

 can supply you with this valuable and 

 fascinating book. The price Is $6.00 

 by prepaid post. 



Topics Discussed by the New Eng- 

 land Nurserymen's Association at 

 their Annual Conventions — An inter- 

 esting volume with much practical In- 

 formation to be gleaned from the con- 

 tents, which are as follows: 



The Relation of the Chemistry of 

 Soils and Fertilizers to the Growth of 

 Nursery Stock; Dr. H. J. Wheeler, 

 Boston, Mass. 



The Nurseryman and Public Parks; 

 George A. Parker, Hartford, Conn. 



The Nurseryman as a Landscape 

 Gardener; Prof. P. A. Waugh, Am- 

 herst, .Mass. 



Methods and Results in Large Tree 

 Planting; Stephen Hoyt, New Canaan, 

 Conn. 



Proper Methods of Growing Herba- 

 ceous Stock in the Nursery; A. E. 

 Robinson, Lexington, Mass. 



Deciduous Shrub Seeds: the Collec- 

 tion, Preparation and Planting; D. A. 

 Clarke, Fiskeville, R. I. 



The Collection, Preparation and 

 Planting of Evergreen Seeds; F. S. 

 Baker, Cheshire, Conn. 



Species of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs 

 and Vines Best Adapted to Western 

 -Massachusetts; Charles Adams, Spring- 

 field, Mass. 



Ornamental Trees and Shrubs for 

 Northern New England; J. G. Jack, 

 East Walpole, Mass. 



Publicity in General: E. Fred Rowe, 

 Harrisburg, Pa. 



Seaside Planting; J. Woodward 

 Manning, North Wilmington, Mass. 



The Propagation and Uses of Native 

 Herbaceous Plants and Ferns; K. E. 

 Gillett, Southwick, Mass. 



Journal of tlie International Garden 

 Club, Volume 1, No. 2. This number 

 completes the first volume of the 

 Journal. During 1918 and thereafter 

 it will be issued quarterly in March, 

 June, September and December. It is 

 a heavy volume, printed on fine paper 

 and embellished with many full-page 

 half-tone garden views and plant por- 

 traits and two rose portraits in color. 

 The contents include papers on May- 

 flowering Tulips, by John Scheepers; 

 Recent Investigations on the Produc- 

 tion of Plant Food in the Soil, by B. 

 D. Russell; A Garden of Ten Cen- 

 turies, by F. A. Arnold; Arnold Arbo- 

 retum Notes, by C. S. Sareent; A. 

 Guide to the Literature of Pomology, 

 by E. A. Bunyard; The Foxtail Lily, 

 by T. A. Havemeyer; Aquatic Garden- 

 ing, by George H. Pring; Tree Surg- 

 ery, by Alex-Lurie; New Rose Intro- 

 ductions, by Geo. H. Thomas; Rose 



