872 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
BOOKS EEVIEWED * 
" How the Garden Grew." By Maud Maryon. (Longmans, Green, & 
Co., London and New York.) 55. 
Not a severely horticultural work, though much, very much, may be 
learned from it by those for whom it is intended — amateur would-be 
gardeners conscious of complete ignorance. It recounts the efforts of 
the young lady at the Vicarage to make something both beautiful to 
look upon and useful to gather from out of three most unpromising or 
insufficient elements — (i) an old neglected weed-ridden flower garden ; 
(ii) a veritable antique in the form of a factotum sexton-gardener, who 
has outlived many previous occupants of the parsonage-house ; and (iii) 
a single £5 note a year ! The difficulties encountered — the alternations 
of confident hope and absolute despair — the excuses and the makeshifts 
are all most humorously told, and " his Reverence " and " Old Griggs " 
are so cleverly depicted that one can literally hear the one chaffing and 
the other grumbling at the novice and her ways. An hour or two may 
be spent most pleasantly, this little book in hand, by all, and very profit- 
ably by any similar "ignoramus " similarly situated to its authoress. 
" The Century Book of Gardening." E. T. Cook, Editor. (Geo. 
Newnes & Co., Southampton Street, London.) 18s'. 
Without exception the most beautiful book of garden literature and 
garden illustrations we have ever seen. The paper and printing leave 
nothing to be desired, and the type used is exquisitely clear. It is in every 
way a marvel of production, and it is difficult to understand how such a 
magnificent work can have been produced at the cost price. We are 
confident in recommending every Fellow of the Society, Avho really cares 
for gardens and plants, to secure a copy. No one should be without 
it. All the principal subjects of gardening are dealt with in masterly 
manner — hardy flowers, greenhouse and foliage plants, the fruit garden, 
vegetables, ferns, roses, grapes, shrubs and flowering trees, terraces, 
lawns, pergolas — in fact, we have noted hardly any omissions ; and the 
illustrations — about 800 — are beyond all praise, a very large proportion 
of them being regular pictures of the highest art value, and being, almost 
in every case, reproductions from photographs, they are all the more 
delightful to the true lover of nature and gardens. 
" The Coccid*, or Scale Insects, and Mealy Bugs of the British Isles." 
By Robert Newstead, F.E.S., F.R.H.S. (Ray Society, London.) 
Mr. Newstead's complete work on these destructive insects will shortly 
be published by the Council of the Ray Society in monographic form, 
comprising two 8vo volumes, to be illustrated by nearly 200 coloured 
and plain plates, which have been designed to meet the wants of both 
the scientist and the horticulturist. The first volume will deal with the 
* Authors and Publishers wishing Books reviewed are particularly requested to 
state the price of each work. 
