"Country Life" Library of Garden Books 



Six Important Volumes by Miss Jekyll . 

 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



By Gertrude Jekyll. Containing instructions and hints on the 

 cultivation of suitable plants on dry walls, rock walls, in streams, 

 marsh pools, lakes, ponds, tanks, and water margins. With 133 

 full-page illustrations. Large 8vo, 186 pages. 12s. 6d. Net. 

 By post 12s. Ud. 



" He who will consent to follow Miss Jekyll aright will find that under 



her guidance the old walls, the stone steps, the rockeries, the ponds, or 



streamlets of his garden will presently blossom with all kinds of flowers 



undreamed of, and become marvels of varied foliage." — Times. 



COLOUR SCHEMES IN THE FLOWER 

 GARDEN 



By Gertrude Jekyll. With over 100 illustrations and planting 

 plans. 12s. 6d. Net. By post 13s. 



" Miss Jekyll is one of the most stimulating of those who write about 

 what may be called the pictorial side of gardening. . She has spent a 



lifetime in learning how to grow and place flowers so as to make the most 

 beautiful and satisfying effects, and she has imparted the fruits of her 

 experience in these delightful pages." — Daily Mail. 



ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



By Gertrude Jekyll and E. Mawley, with 190 full-page 



illustrations. 12s. 6d. Net. By post 12s. lid. 



" A delightful proof of the increased devotion shown to rose-growing. There is a happy combination of author 

 ship, for no one can better suggest the artistic value of garden roses old and new than Miss Jekyll, while the Secretary 

 of the Rose Society, Mr. Edward Mawley, is a Rosarian who would satisfy Omar Khayyam." — Manchester Courier 



LILIES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



Written and compiled by Gertrude Jekyll. 8s. Qd. Net. By post 8s. IM. 



" Lilies for English Gardens is a volume in the Country Life Library, and it is almost sufificiently high 

 commendation to say that the book is worthy of the jqurnal. Miss Jekyll's aim has been to write and compile a book 

 on Lilies which shall tell amateurs, in the plainest and simplest possible way, how most easily and successfully to 

 grow the Lily." — Westminster Gazette. 



CHILDREN AND GARDENS 



By Gertrude Jekyll. A garden book for children, treating not only of their own little gardens and other 

 outdoor occupations, but also of the many amusing and interesting things that occur in and about the 

 larger home garden and near grounds. Thoroughly practical and full of pictures. 6s. Net. By post 6s. Ad. 



" Little bits of botany, quaint drawings of all kinds of things, pretty pictures, reminiscences and amusements — 

 why, it is a veritable ' Swiss Family Robinson ' for the bairns, and we shall be surprised and disappointed if it is not 

 introduced into many hundreds of homes." — Liverpool Post. 



FLOWER DECORATION IN THE HOUSE 



By Gertrude Jekyll. 6s. Net. By post 6s. 4d. 



"... from the capable pen of Miss Gertrude Jekyll, pne of the highest authorities on the subject, and 

 one whose name alone is sufficient to commend the book to the favourable consideration of all. It may safely be 

 said that this is one of the best books, if not the very best book, upon floral decoration which has been published." 

 / !,, — Dundee Courier. 



THE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING 



Edited by E. T. Cook. A Comprehensive Work for every Lover of the Garden. 624 pages, with about 

 600 illustrations, many of them full-page Ato (12 in. by 8J in.). 21s. Net. By post 21s. lOi^. 



" No department of gardening is neglected, and the illustrations of famous and beautiful gardens and of 

 the many winsome achievements of the gardener's art are so numerous and attractive as to make the veriest 

 cockney yearn to turn gardener. If The Century Book of Gardening does not make all who see it 

 covet their neighbours' gardens through sheer despair of ever making for themselves such gardens as are there 

 illustrated, it should, at any rate, inspire everyone who desires to have a. garden with an ambition to make 

 jt as beautiful as he can." — Times. 



GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS 



^(A Handbook to the Garden.) By E. T. Cook. With nearly 100 diagrams in the text, and 90 full-page 

 illustrations from photographs of selected specimens of Plants, Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, etc. 

 Fifth Edition. ' 12s. 6i. Net. By post 12s. 10^. 



" One cannot speak in too high praise of the idea that led Mr, E. T. Cook to compile this Gardening for 

 Beginners, and of the completeness and succinctness with which the idea has been carried out. Nothing is 

 omitted . . It is a book that will be welcomed with enthusiasm in the world of gardeners." — Morning Post. 



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