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 Extra Crown 8vo. Price 6s. 



Elizabeth and her German Garden. 



THE TIMES. — "A very bright little book-^genial, humorous, perhaps a 

 little fantastic and wayward here and there, but full of bright glimpses of nature 

 and sprightly criticisms of life. Elizabeth i-s the English wife of a German 

 husband, who finds and makes for herself a delightful retreat from the banalities 

 of life in a German provincial town by occupying and beautifying a deserted 

 convent." 



I'HE SCOTSMAN.— "The garden in question is somewhere in Germany. ., . . 

 Its owner found it a, wilderness, has made it a paradise, and tells the reader how. 

 The book is charmingly written. , . . The people that appear in it are almost 

 as interesting as the flowers. . . . Altogether it is a delightful book, of a quiet 

 but strong interest, which no one who. loves plants and flowers ought to miss 

 reading." 



THE ACADEMY.—" * I love my garden '—that is the first sentence, and read- 

 ing on, we find ourselves in the presence of a whimsical, humorous, cultured, 

 and very womanly woman, with a pleasant, old-fashioned liking for homeliness 

 and simplicity J with a wise husband, three merry babes, aged five, four, and 

 three, a few friends, a gardener, an old CSerman house to repose in, a garden to 

 be happy in, an agreeable literary gift, and a slight touch of cynicism. Such is 

 Elizabeth. The book is a quiet record of her life' in her old world retreat, her 

 adventures among bulbs and seeds, the sayings of her babies, and the dia- 

 comfitu're and rout of a New Woman visitor. , , . , It is a charming book, and 

 we should like to dally with it." 



THE GLASGOW HERALD.— "Thxs book has to do with more than a German 

 garden, for the imaginary diary which it contains is really a description, and a 

 very charming and picturesque one, of life in a north German country house." 



THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN."— "T^o mere extracts could do justice to 

 this entirely delightful garden book." 



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The Book of the Rose. By Rev. A. Foster- 



Melliar, M.A., Rector of Sproughton, Suffolk. Illustrated. 



GARDENER'S CHRONICLE.— "Yoa are told exactly what, to do; and you 

 must be exacting indeed if you find any point on which you desire information 

 that is not included in these fourteen chapters. , . . This charming and instruc- 

 tive volume, which, as a practical puide, we venture to think justifies its title, 

 ambitious though it be, of The Book of the Rose." 



JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— "Jhe Book of the 

 Rose is the most scientific, complete, and perfect ever published on that subject, 

 and we strongly advise those who have not read it to lose no time in possessing 

 a copy." 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE.— " Awork of permanent value to be treasured 

 and studied for the information it contains." 



8vo. buckram. Price 105. 6d. 



The Bamboo Garden. By A. B, Freeman- 



MiTFORD, C.B. Illustrated by Alfred Parsons. 



THE SPECTATOR.— " V/e heartily commend the book to botanists and to those 

 garden-lovers who may perhaps never see either bamboos or typical Alpine 

 plants growing in their native soils, but will welcome new varieties of both in 

 their own insular fashion, and will set about transplanting them with the help 

 of an accommodating climate and the true British adaptibility of character." 



THE ATHENj€UM.—" Ml. Mitford has collected for us in a most agreeable 

 and accurate manner the available information concerning the history, character- 

 istics, and mode of culture of the hardy bamboos." 



THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON ATEfFS.— "Will be a joy for ever to gardeners 

 and a revelation to the non-gardening world. . . . This beautifnlly-got-up book 

 promises to make the cultivation of the bamboo more and more fashionable and 

 successful," 



