GARDEN BOOKS 



read books of this high quality the more beauti- 

 fully shall we garden. 



To return for a moment to books of the kind 

 and type of Miss Water-field's the two or three 

 others which come to mind are Elgood's and Miss 

 Jekyll's "Some English Gardens"; Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell's "Scottish Gardens"; "Houses and 

 Gardens," by Baillie-Scott. To read these books, 

 to study their most charming pictures, is not 

 only to revel in their own beauty, but to be well 

 started on the way to achieving one's own. Every 

 illustration in "Some English Gardens" gives 

 practical suggestion of a principle of beauty, and 

 with the illuminating text the several lessons are 

 complete. I would rename this book, and "Per- 

 fect Gardens" is the daring title I should bestow 

 upon it. 



For books whose color illustrations are worth 

 possessing, books on flowers of other lands than 

 England, the lovely volume by the Du Cane sis- 

 ters is always good to open "Flowers and Gar- 

 dens of Japan." Full of charm, too, are Flem- 

 well's "Alpine Flowers and Gardens," and "The 

 Flower Fields of Alpine Switzerland," with pic- 

 tures finely reproduced from beautiful originals. 

 "Dutch Bulbs and Gardens," by Nixon, Silberrad, 

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