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conditions. The chapters on cost are particularly valuable, and will 

 prevent anyone entering too light-heartedly on the construction of a 

 rock garden, which, at the best, is not a cheap amusement. 



" Eock and Water Gardens: Their Making and Planting." By 

 the late F. W. Meyer. Edited by E. T. Cook. 8vo., 227 pp. 

 Country Life," London, 1910.) 6s. net. 



To the practical gardener who wishes to make and plant a rock 

 garden this work should be of great use. For the choosing of a site, 

 the best stones to use, and, generally speaking, the plants to grow, 

 the advice in every case is sound, to the point, and thoroughly practical. 

 The chapters as to the making of wall and water gardens, and the 

 combination of the latter with rock gardens, are particularly good. 

 The lists of plants given to be planted in rock gardens, however, are 

 in some instances likely to lead amateurs astray. Many alpines are 

 notoriously capricious, and some of those selected would be found 

 very difficult to grow except in the warmer parts of England. We 

 do not envy anybody who tries to grow Eritrichium nanum or Gen- 

 tiana bavarica without more information on the subject than is given 

 here. Apart from this, the book is one that ought to be in the library 

 of everyone who either has a rock or a water garden, or who intends 

 to make one. 



"Alpine Flowers and Gardens." Painted and described by 

 G. Flemwell. Sm. 4to., 167 pp. (Black, London, 1910.) 7s. 6cZ. net. 



There is little in this volume of any great use to the grower of 

 " alpines," but it is a pleasant book for an idle hour, and the illus- 

 trations, within the limits of the three-colour process, portray accu- 

 rately the position in which alpine plants naturally grow, and serve 

 as a very pleasant reminder to anyone who has collected them in their 

 own haunts. It is to be hoped that the book may serve to arouse 

 sufficient interest among tourists to induce them to be more careful 

 in their treatment of alpine flowers than they are at present. The 

 writer in more than one excursion through the Alps has come across 

 masses of Saxifrage and Anemones torn from their roots and thrown 

 down anywhere because they w^ere too heavy to carry. Monsieur 

 Correvon writes an appreciative preface to the book from the point of 

 view of its artistic merit, in which it certainly excels. 



" Profitable Fruit-Growing for Cottagers and Small Holders of 

 Land." By John Wright, V.M.H. 9th ed., 8vo., iv. +127 pp., 

 with 53 illustrations. (Collingridge, London, 1910.) Is. 



Pages 1 to 92 of this book contain the essay which won the gold 

 medal offered by the Worshipful Company of Fruiterers in 1889, the 

 remainder being added in the sixth edition, with which the present 

 one is practically identical. There is probably no better book at the 

 price for beginners in fruit-growing, whether for pleasure or business, 

 while amateurs of experience can scarcely fail to profit by a perusal 



