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Old Time Gardens, newly set forth by Alice 

 Morse Earle, a book of the Sweet of the Year, 

 published by The McMillan Co., price $2.50. 



This is a most interesting" book to any one 

 who is a lover of flowers and their associa- 

 tions with other days. The book is not in- 

 tended to be one of instruction to those who 

 wish for practical information about floricul- 

 ture, but rather a book of diversion for one 

 who already knows something about flowers. 

 To give our readers some idea of the book, 

 we quote from the chapter entitled, " In 

 Lilac Tide ": 



'* A flover opens, and lo, another year, is 

 the beautiful and suggestive legend in the 

 Catacombs. Since these words were writ- 

 ten, how many years have begun, how many 

 flowers have opened ; and yet natuie has 

 never let us weary of spring and spring 



flowers. My garden knows well the time 

 o' the year. It needs no almanac to count 

 the months. 



"The untaught Spring is wise 

 In Cowslips and Anemonies." 



"While I sit shivering, idling, wondering" 

 when I can start the garden, lo, there 

 are Snowdrops and spring starting up to 

 greet me. 



'* Even in earliest spring there are days 

 when there is no green in grass, tree or 

 shrub ; but when the garden lover is 

 conscious that winter is gone and spring- 

 is waiting. There is in every garden, 

 in every door yard, as in the field and 

 by the roadside, in some indefinable 

 way a look of spring. One hint of 

 spring comes even before its flowers, you 



