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December, 1907 



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Gardening in Town and Suburb. By 

 Harry H. Thornas. New York: Long- 

 mans, Green Sc Co. Pp. 8+175. Price, 

 $1.00 net. 



This is an unpretentious and useful volume 

 dealing with gardens of a type not usually 

 treated in garden books, that is, with small 

 gardens such as are available in the somewhat 

 restricted limits of town and suburbs as dis- 

 tinguished from the more ample gardens of the 

 country. Its author is an accomplished Eng- 

 lish horticulturalist, but his book contains 

 many suggestions of practical value that are as 

 helpful and as useful in America as in Eng- 

 land. It is a volume that will particularly ap- 

 peal to the owner of the modest garden, to the 

 man or woman who has but limited space and 

 perhaps limited means for the cultivation of 

 the gardening art. The introductory chapters 

 treat of gardens in a general way, and are fol- 

 lowed by detailed discussions of various kinds 

 of flowering plants and groups of plants, trees 

 and shrubs. There is a suggestive chapter on 

 roof gardens and others on various types of 

 greenhouses, followed by one on window gar- 

 dening. The concluding chapter of useful 

 hints is by no means the least useful in this 

 very helpful little book. 



How TO Lay Out Suburban Home 

 Ground. By Herbert J. Kellaway. 

 New York: John Wiley & Sons. Pp. 

 12+1 12. Price, $2.50. 



Tliis is indeed a welcome addition to gar- 

 den literature and fills a space wholly its own. 

 The author has been fortunate in mapping 

 out a distinctively individual plan for himself 

 and filling in its outlines in a thoroughly suc- 

 cessful and helpful manner. After all, the 

 true test of books relating to gardens is their 

 practical usefulness to the reader. It is a mis- 

 taken notion to look for definite help in books 

 that necessarily must be general in their treat- 

 ment, and it is the definite help that the aver- 

 age garden lover seeks rather than the state- 

 ment of general principles whose practical ap- 

 plication he can not always understand. 



The general principles, however, are exactly 

 the fundamental laws that underlie the making 

 of all gardens and the treatment of all subur- 

 ban and country places. Mr. Kellaway has 

 undertaken to explain these elementary and es- 

 sential matters in the briefest way and to show 

 how their adoption succeeds ar.d their avoid- 

 ance fails. His plans and sketches, with com- 

 mendable modesty, are offered not as designs 

 to be carried out, but as examples of what can 

 be done. Many a personal problem can, how- 

 ever, be bettered or solved, by a study of his 

 pages, and this is the true end sought in the 

 writing of this book. The author very wisely 

 refrains from giving extensive lists of shrubs, 

 for, as he pertinently remarks, every lo- 

 cality has plants that are indigenous to it. In- 

 stead, he contents himself with the more use- 

 ful method of directing the reader to means of 

 securing in his own community the knowledge 

 on this subject that every one requires. The 

 book is adequately illustrated with photo- 

 graphs and plans, and will well repay careful 

 reading and study. 



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