GARDEN BOOKS 



"The Seasons in a Flower Garden," by Miss 

 Louise Shelton, of Morristown, N. J. I wish this 

 book had been published twenty years ago not 

 five. It gives advice not only lucid and sound, 

 but always looking toward good color arrange- 

 ment, the very highest and finishing beauty of 

 the garden. Here in a small volume may be 

 found, admirably arranged, the first principles of 

 good flower gardening. 



"Success in Gardening," by Miss Jessie Froth- 

 ingham, of Princeton, is a book on the order of 

 Miss Shelton's, and like hers it deserves a wide 

 public. This, too, is to be commended to the 

 inexperienced. From January to December gar- 

 den work is suggested week by week and between 

 the lines one sees much charming suggestion, the 

 fruit of a long and sound experience on the part 

 of the author. 



Mrs. Sedgwick's "The Garden Month by 

 Month" is a capital addition to our garden lit- 

 erature. Information here is in tabulated form 

 easy to get at, so well arranged and classified 

 as to give at once facts as to any plant or bulb 

 in general or even occasional cultivation. The 

 pictures, as may be seen from the two here repro- 

 duced, are, I believe, the most satisfying photo- 



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