IRISH GARDENING 



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Garden Making. 



In a handsome, square volume, embellished with 150 

 thoroughly practical illustrations, Mr. W. S. Rogers 

 has provided all garden-lovers with a standard text- 

 book on the absorbing subject of planning and planting 

 a garden.* The author is not only a gardener but an 

 artist, and his remarks upon the pictorial side of garden- 

 making are illuminating, sound, and to the point. He 

 tells us when planting for beauty to use the colours of 

 growing plants just in the same wa\- as the painter 

 makes use of pigments in the creations of his brush. 

 We must, in making a garden, strive to produce a 

 picture, natural, harmonious and pleasing. After these 

 preliminaries the reader is at once taken in hand and 

 given instruction in the rudiments imderhing the art, 

 such as the determining factors to be considered (great 

 stress being laid on aspect) and the fundamental 

 elements in making a garden plan. P'ollowing this 

 are chapters on de- 

 tails, including beds 

 and borders, walks 

 and drives, lawns, 

 rock gardens, fences 

 and hedges, the 

 treatment of sloping 

 ground, and kindred 

 subjects, with an ex- 

 cellent chapter on 

 planting. There is 

 nothing apparently 

 left out ; even par- 

 ticulars concerning 

 edgings and the best 

 class of material to 

 use under given con- 

 ditions are included 

 in this compendium 

 of garden-making. 



There are quite a 

 large number of plans 

 carefully drawn to 

 scale and dealing 



with all 

 condition 



of 



ens. In every case aspect is 

 taken into account, and by the use of different tones of 

 shading the shadows and partial shadows cast by the 

 dwelling-house and walls in the case of smaller gardens 



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are graphicall}- shown on the drawings. Several of the 

 plans are those of actual gardens presumedly laid out 

 bv the author. Attention is rightly drawn to the 

 use of suitable subjects for particular sites, and 

 lists are given of plants that thrive under different 

 conditions, such as in full sunshine, in deep or partial 

 shade, on dry banks or among rocks, in damp ground 

 and in water. A large amount of valuable matter use- 

 ful for reference is given in the appendices. Long lists 

 of plants suitable for all sorts of situations in the garden 

 and pleasure grounds are given, together with such 

 information concerning them as habit, colour, height, 

 habitat, &c. It is a work that many owners of gardens 

 will be glad to consult, and it should certainly find a 

 place in every country house library. 



A Book for Beekeepers. 



Beekeeping has always been closely associated with 

 gardening. The beehive is really an essential part of 

 the garden, just as the visit of the bee is essential 

 to the well-being of the flower. It is, therefore, 

 not for the honey alone that bees are so useful, but 

 because of their work in distributing pollen, and thus 

 securing fertilisation and the speedy setting of fruit. 

 This is why bees are so necessary in orchards, and why 

 the attention of all earnest gardeners should be given to 

 learning the art of beekeeping. Fortunately a good deal of 

 attention is given to the study of bees and their manage- 

 ment in this country, and weknowasa fact that quite a 

 large number of our readers are interested in the practi- 

 cal side of beekeeping and all the collateral branches of 

 this interesting and modestly profitable pursuit. To all 

 such, and to others 

 who have a desire 

 to make a beginning 

 in beekeeping, we 

 can confidently re- 

 commend this 

 thoroughly practical 

 and reliable little 

 guide,* prepared by 

 the Editor of the 

 Irish Bee Journal. 

 The second edition, 

 just published, is 

 revised throughout 

 and brought well up 

 tc date, with several 

 new chapters and 

 additional illustra- 

 tions. The book is 

 conveniently divided 

 into three sections. 

 The first deals with 

 the natural historv of 

 the bee, the second 

 devotes itself to hives 

 and appliances used in beekeeping, while the last gives 

 very clear and precise instructions as to the manage- 

 ment of the bee in health and disease. A final chapter 

 is added on exhibiting and judging bee products. 



*" The Practical Bee Guide: a Manual of Jfodern Beekeeping." 

 By the Rev. J. O. Digges. 2s. Eason & Sons, Ltd., Dublin. 



