A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Cyclopaedia of Horticulture as anything but a 

 necessity, though you may be compelled to call it 

 an eventual one. Lists of garden books can be 

 had from any one who has reaUy studied the sub- 

 ject, but such lists should be more discriminating 

 than those I have thus far chanced to see. Many 

 worthless books are usually included in them. An 

 examining member, herself a practical gardener, on 

 the Library Committee of a garden club would be 

 well. 



If a regiilar course should be desired by any 

 garden club, the compiling of a programme should 

 not be difficult. One such already exists, arranged 

 by the editor of a New York periodical for women. 

 Access to libraries should not make the getting up 

 of such a programme over-trying, however. If, 

 for instance, an outline of the history of the art of 

 gardening should be desired for winter dehbera- 

 tions (and let me here assert my firm belief that 

 nothing could be better for us all as individual 

 gardeners), such an outline may be found in vol- 

 umes II and III, 1889 and 1890, of "Garden and 

 Forest," and from no less a pen than that of Mrs. 

 Schuyler Van Rensselaer. 



Papers by members may seem a bugbear in a 

 rlub's beginnings. Help this matter by providing 



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