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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



September, 1907 



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wrapping or covering, they could winter suc- 

 cessfully, as the roots seem to be perfectly 

 hardy, standing several degrees below zero un- 

 protected in the open ground. When they 

 have reached a height of eighteen or twenty 

 feet they are very graceful. Like the grasses 

 they require an abundant water supply, and the 

 plan of piping water into the beds answers ad- 

 mirably with them. 



Along the border of the grass beds certain 

 bright hued flowers may be grown effectively, 

 notably the tritomas or red-hot poker plant 

 and the scarlet cardinal flowers. One of the 

 prettiest bits of natural gardening I ever saw 

 was a little island in a river, covered with tall 

 grasses and cardinal flowers. The flowers re- 

 flected in the water below — bits of scarlet fiire 

 in a sea of waving green. 



A Bachelor's Cupboard. Collected by A. 

 Lyman Phillips. Boston : John W. Luce 

 & Co. Pp. 210. Price, $1.00. 

 The writer of this book undoubtedly in- 

 tended it as a handbook for bachelors of all 

 classes, for his second chapter — and perhaps 

 the one that will most attract the reader — 

 is devoted to the "Impecunious Bachelor," 

 while further on is a price list of wines, rang- 

 ing in every possible manner, from $60.00 

 per dozen down. A great variety of human 

 beings may thus find something of interest 

 here, even if the suggestions are not equally 

 applicable to all alike. The bachelor whose 

 ideas of bachelor home life centers in food and 

 food supplies and in the methods of preparing 

 and cooking food, with perhaps a thought or 

 two of clothes, may find not a little amuse- 

 ment and some instruction in this cheerful 

 book. To such, no doubt, the cooking recipes 

 will seem eminently useful. 



The English Flower Garden and Home 

 Grounds. By W. Robinson. New 

 ^'ork: Imported by Charles Scribner's 

 Sons. Pp. I4-F974. Price, $6.00 net. 

 That ten editions should have been called 

 for of this large and important book is the 

 highest testimony to its value. That it is writ- 

 ten for and is exclusively concerned with Eng- 

 lish gardens makes its utility in America nec- 

 essarily somewhat secondary, but it is filled, 

 from cover to cover, with a host of valuable 

 information, admirably arranged and con- 

 densed, and is so complete in its treatment 

 that no garden lover can wisely omit it from 

 his shelves. 



The book consists of two parts. The first 

 deals with the question of design, the aim 

 being to make the garden a reflex of the beauty 

 of the great garden of the world itself, and to 

 prove that the true way to happiest design is 

 not to have any stereotyped style for all flower 

 gardens — and there is a world of truth in this 

 single comment — but that the best kind of gar- 

 den should arise out of its site and conditions 

 as happily as a primrose out of a cool bank. 

 This portion of the subject is treated in nu- 

 merous chapters with ample fulness. The sec- 

 ond part of the book consists of a dictionary 

 catalogue of most of the trees and plants, 

 hardy and half-hardy, that thrive in English 

 gardens. Like the earlier portion, this part 

 is amply illustrated, so that the identification 

 of any plant should be easily made. The book 

 is thus a veritable treasure-house of English 

 garden lore, much of which is equally adapta- 

 ble to America and American conditions. 



