GARDEN BOOKS 



qualities are combined. Unfortunately, this book 

 is out of print. 



Of Mr. E. Augustus Bowles's two newly pub- 

 lished volumes of the horticultural trilogy, "My 

 Garden in Spring," "My Garden in Summer," 

 and "My Garden in Autumn," I would echo the 

 comment of an English journal: "We are loath to 

 close the book, which every true gardener should 

 read and read again. Like the author's garden, 

 it is a ' thing of beauty and a joy forever." It 

 is impossible not to be caught up by so strong a 

 wave of enthusiasm for plants and the growing of 

 them as sweeps along these pages. The writer's 

 learning and his delight in his gardening pursuits 

 are everywhere in evidence; yet all is so sponta- 

 neously told that learning and delight are equally 

 agreeable to the reader. There is in these books 

 a true ecstasy in gardening. 



Before these of Mr. Bowles's there were a few 

 such books books carrying this quality of a 

 spirit of joy in the work among flowers. Such is 

 Mrs. Stephen Batson's "The Summer Garden of 

 Pleasure," with such pretty chapter headings as 

 "Incoming Summer," "High Summer," "The 

 Rout of August," "Waning Summer." "The 

 Guild of the Garden Lovers," by Constance 



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