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GARDENING. 



Nov. 75, 



Thomas Whateley (or Wheatley) "Ob- 

 servations on Modern Gardening. Lon- 

 don, 1793. 



Sir Uvedale Price. "On the Pictur- 

 esque" Edinburgh, 1842. 



Humphrey Repton. "Observations on 

 the Theory and Practice of Landscape 

 Gardening." London, 1803. 



Wm. S. Gilpin. "Practical Hints upon 

 Landscape Gardening." London, 1835. 



A. J. Downing. "A Treatise on the 

 Theory and Practice of Landscape Gar- 

 dening, adapted to North America.' New 

 York and London, 1875. 



Edward Kemp. "How to lay out a 

 small garden." London. 1860. 



H. W. S. Cleveland. "Landscape Archi- 

 tecture as applied to the wants of the 

 West." Chicago, 1873. 



Walter Howe. "The Garden as con- 

 sidered in Literature by certain polite 

 Writers. New York, 1890. 



All of these books with the exception of 

 a revised edition of Downing's works are 

 out of print and must be sought for 

 through dealers in second hand books. 

 Probably any one of them could be 

 secured in time b\' such dealersif an order 

 was placed in their hands. 



Of the more recent books than those 

 named in the list referred to, "Landscape 

 Gardening" by Samuel Parsons is attrac- 

 tively written and beautifully illustrated. 

 It refers more particularly to lawn plants 

 and lawn planting. 



Elias A. Long has published a book on 

 "Ornamental Gardening for America," 

 which is, as its title implies, a book on 

 ornamental rather than landscape gar- 

 dening. 



Of the serial publications which have 

 given the most attention to practical 

 hints on the execution of work and the 

 handling of plants, in my opinions, Gar- 

 dening takes the lead. 



Warren H. Manning. 



Away with the Bloomers. — As a 

 woman who has done garden work as 

 long ago as when in childish play we used 

 to make a garden, I too protest against 

 bloomers for women gardeners; it is not 

 necessary at all, and to my mind must be 

 embarrassing in the extreme. In Berlin, 

 Germany, Frege street, 42, is a garden 

 school for women of a very high stand- 

 ard, the young girls (graduates of high 

 schools) wear for outdoor work shorter 

 skirts than for indoors, down to their 

 ankles, that's all, and in rainy or wet 

 weather, wooden shoes. We ought to 

 have such schools here, and I hope earn- 

 estly that before long we may have them. 

 Mrs Wilhelmina Seliger. 



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