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H R T I C U L T U E E 



March 31, 1917 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Aristocrats ol' the Garden, by Ernest 

 H. Wilson, Arnold Arboretum, Bos- 

 ton, Author of "A Naturalist in West- 

 ern China." Published by Doubleday, 

 Page & Co., Garden City, N'. Y. Edi- 

 tion limited to 1200 copies. This 

 book is largely a reprint from the nota- 

 ble contributions by ]\Ir. Wilson to 

 the columns of The Garden Magazine. 

 These articles have awakened wide 

 spread enthusiasm of the most pro- 

 gressive kind and their appearance in 

 book form marks a mile post, so to 

 speak, in the advancement of Ameri- 

 can horticulture. 



It is sterling from start to finish. Mi. 

 , Wilson's narrative style is very capti- 

 I vating and we have taken a keen de- 

 light in reading its pages. The type 

 used is large and altogether it is a 

 book that will prove a real treat to the 

 lover of the hardy garden. 



The chaptei-s are as follows: The 

 Story of the IVIodern Rose, "Consider 

 the Lilies." IVIidsummer Flowering 

 Trees and Shrubs. The Best of the 

 Hardy Climbing Shrubs, Ornamental 

 Fruited Trees and Shrubs, The Glory 

 of the Autumn, The Best Hardy Coni- 

 fers, Broad-Leaved Evergreens for 

 Northern Gardens, New Chinese Trees 

 and Shrubs, Early Spring-Flowering 

 Trees and Shrubs, .Japanese Cherries 

 and Asiatic Crabapples, In "Lilacdom," 

 New Herbaceous Plants from Chini, 

 "Hardy" Rhododendrons. The Story of 

 the Davidia, E|;ilogue. The full page 

 illustrations; The Mountain Laurel, 

 The Sargent Rose, Lilium Sargentiae, 

 Gordonia altamaha. Clematis montana 

 •yar. rubens, The Snowberry, The Sil- 

 ver Birch, The Concolor Fir, Yucca 

 flaccida, Evonyraus radicans var. vege- 

 tus, Chinese Pistach Tree, Magnolia 

 Soulangeana. The Crabapple. Lilacs, 

 Senecio clivorum. Primula pulveru- 

 lenta. Rhododendron caucasicum, Da- 

 vidia involucrata. 



There are 312 pages and the enor- 

 mous amount of plant mention they 

 contain is shown in the index, which 

 fills over 22 columns of fine type. 



The Monthly Bulletin of the Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station for 

 March 1917, published at Wooster, 

 Ohio, contains a very useful and com- 

 mendable article on Ornamental Wind- 

 breaks, by W. E. Bontrager, showing 

 how evergreens may be grouped with 

 small trees and flowering shrubs to 

 produce cheerful and attractive results 

 as compared with straight-row wind- 

 breaks. 



PERSONAL. 

 C. W. Ward of Eureka, Cal., has 

 t)een ill in bed for the past six weeks 

 and is recovering now, but slowly. 



W. G. Woodger, recently at "The Gar- 

 dens," Pocantico Hills, N. Y'., has ac- 

 cepted the position of superintendent 

 on the Booth estate, Great Neck, Long 

 Island, N. Y. 



The Elm City Nursery Company, 

 Woodmont Nurseries, Inc., of New 

 Haven, Conn., inform us that they will 

 now be able to proceed with the de- 

 velopment of their extensive new nur- 

 series at Woodmont, Conn., as the New 

 Haven Railroad's plans which would 

 have taken all their nursery properties, 

 have been so changed as to make this 

 possible. 



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