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them again. Too often the glory has departed, and the on-coming of 

 autumn in the garden only wakes thoughts of a grey, unkind winter, 

 full of gloom, without a ray of brightness to mitigate its leaden heavi- 

 ness. It need not be so, for he who seeks may find, and if he take as 

 guide this, the best of the trilogy Mr. Bowles has given us of his garden, 

 he will find. His "Garden in Spring " and his " Garden in Summer " 

 were full of good things, and no less full is the " Garden in Autumn 

 and Winter " ; nor does he weary as he takes us with genial kindly 

 guidance from river-bank to rock-garden, from wall to level lawn, to 

 see the treasures his garden holds. 



Apart from their economic uses, we grow plants for various reasons. 

 Some have them because they like masses of colour to catch their eye 

 as they walk abroad ; some because it pleases them to watch how their 

 treasures grow and respond to their surroundings ; some because of 

 some quaintness plants possess, or for their individual beauty of form 

 or marking ; some for many reasons, and some for none other than 

 that they love them (and they grow best for these). All these and 

 others may find in this book suggestions for fulfilling their own particu- 

 lar fancy, and fresh ideas given freely, but with none of that ostentatious 

 loftiness that some adopt when they tell what they believe to be the 

 best way. 



So rich is the author's garden that fully four hundred plants find 

 mention for some beauty each has to give in the " dull months " of 

 the year, and each month finds ome pleasant and profitable task for 

 the garden-lover, even when chill winter holds the earth in frozen grip. 

 Crocuses, the author's best love, and no one knows the Crocuses as he 

 does, give him flowers from beginning of autumn to end of winter ; 

 Colchicums puzzle him and drive him to his books, and, as ever when 

 one starts to discover the correct names of old garden plants, these 

 puzzle still more ; the tints of autumn foliage and bare branches please ; 

 the berries, the winter flowers, the ferns, and the evergreen shrubs and 

 trees all combine to attract attention and excite admiration. 



Out of the fulness of his knowledge and his love for his plants, 

 Mr. Bowles has given us three books which will fulfil the aim he had 

 in writing them, for they will interest people to collect and grow more 

 plants than ever they dreamt of before. 



The black and white illustrations in this volume are excellent, 

 and we like the coloured ones better than in the other two. 



" Complete Carnation Culture." By J. Harrison Dick. 8vo., 

 262 pp. (De La More, New York, 1915.) $1.50. 



Probably no flower is more esteemed by all classes than the 

 Carnation, and, although much has been written since the double 

 Carnation was mentioned some 400 years ago, its cultivation has 

 increased in interest to the present, and while flowers are grown it 

 always will be of universal interest. Mr. Harrison Dick has most 



