FLORA 
AND SYLVA. 
Vol. III. No. 33.] 
DECEMBER, 1905 
[Monthly. 
TO OUR READERS. 
Flora and Sylva has hitherto been pub- 
lished at less than its actual cost^ with 
a view to putting little pecufiiary ba?~ to 
its circulation . // is n ow clear to us th at a 
serial of the kind^ done in the best way as 
regards illustrations^ paper ^ a7id pri?tt- 
ingj does not appeal to a sufficient number 
of readers to justify its bei?ig issued as a 
monthly magazine. But we have many 
sympathetic readers afid do not mean to 
desert them^ so that while with this year 
Flora and Sylva will cease to be issi:ed 
as a magazine^ for the future it will be 
published as a YEARLY VOLUME. 
In this way we shall have certain ad- 
vantages in (i) more eve?i pri7tti7ig i (2) 
a more variedassortmentof hand-worked 
plates; (3) more work of lasting value., 
with greater freedom in being able to 
treat each subject in due proportion to its 
value. Our aim will be the figurijig 
and describing of new afid important 
plants^ trees., and shrubs., wholly from 
the poi?it of view of the planter ait d gar- 
dener., without trade ijifluence or bias of 
any kind. The yearly volume of Flora 
AND Sylva will be issued to booksellers i?i 
the autumn of 1906, and will be pre- 
cisely as heretofore save that it will 
appear in volume form o?ily. 
WHO IS TO LAY OUT THE 
GARDEN ? 
Cottage, farm, and manor gardeners, 
have good reason to be happy that the 
need for making the most of their space 
prevents any office-plans being used, 
and the simple lines they are compelled 
to adopt are a great source of beauty. 
It is when we get to places of any size 
that the question arises, who is to lay 
out the garden? I say that he who knows 
the ground best can always do best in 
the planting of a country place. But 
for various reasons many people cannot 
face the problem unaided, and in the 
present state of things they are very 
likely to get into trouble even when 
help is sought. For there is no organ- 
ised profession to help : anyone may 
call himself a landscape gardener ; a 
navvy who has had some experience of 
walk and road-making, a jobbing gar- 
dener, men wholly without training 
will undertake the work, and many nur- 
serymen advertise themselves as land- 
scape gardeners, their own work being 
the wholly different one of growing 
trees and shrubs and plants into the best 
state for planting. 
There are even a few architects who 
offer to lay out gardens, though their 
