256 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BOOKS RECEIVED* 



"Wall and Water Gardens." By Gertrude Jekyll. (Geo. Newnes, 

 Ltd., London.) 125-. Qd. 8vo. 



Any book, on any branch of gardening, bearing Miss Jekyll's name 

 needs no further recommendation. This book confines itself to *' beautiful 

 mountain plants and the plants of marsh and water," and we can only 

 hope it is intended to be one of a series yet to come from the same 

 delightsome pen — delightsome, not simply in the subjects which ^liss 

 Jekyll chooses, but in the charm of that rare combination of scholarly 

 English, simplicity of language, and happiness of expression. All 

 garden-lovers will rejoice in it. The type is clear and excellent, and there 

 are upwards of 130 full-page illustrations printed in that absolutely 

 perfect way so well known to all readers of " Country Life." 



" Workmen's Compensation Acts." By W. A. Willis, LL.]>. (Butter- 

 worth Co., London.) 



A useful little hand-book containing the text of the Acts of 1897 and 

 1900, together with explanatory notes and explanations, and also with 

 references to all the cases which have been brought into the Courts since 

 the Acts were passed and the decisions given therein. It is a useful 

 ananual for employers and employed alike. 



"The Art and Craft of Garden Making." By Thomas H. Mawson. 

 <B. T. Batsford, 94 High Holborn, London.) 25s. Royal 4to. 



A fine volume, evidencing a vast amount of study bestowed upon the 

 making, and fashion, and laying-out of gardens ornamental and useful. 

 One of the author's objects is to gather together all that is good and 

 beautiful from every style of garden, and to combine them, so far as they 

 will harmonise with the architecture and general surroundings of the 

 house. He treats of the site, the gates, hedges, fences and drives, the 

 flower-garden, lawns, and walks, sun-dials, seats, and summer-houses, 

 greenhouses for flowers and fruit culture, ponds, lakes and streams, 

 l^itchen gardens, orchards, trees and shrubs, landscape gardening, &c., 

 .and gives no fewer than 130 plans and details, besides a large number 

 'Of full-page illustrations. Anyone thinking of laying out a new garden 

 or remodelling an old one would do well to consult this work. 



" Cassell's Dictionary of Gardening." Edited by Walter P. Wright. 

 (Cassells, London and New York.) 



A work which has the advantage (or disadvantage) of coming out in 

 monthly parts, of which there are to be " about 20, each Id. net." The 

 first three parts have reached us. It combines the idea of a Dictionary 



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 state the price of each work. 



