GARDEN BOOKS 



"The Seasons in a Flower Garden," by Miss 

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

 book had been pubhshed 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 

 picture^, as may be seen from the two here repro- 

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



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