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on " Old-Fashioned Gardening/' by Mrs. Paul, much of it dug out 
of Parkinson ; the introduction to John Gerarde's Herbal ; Harper's 
" Antiquity, Innocence, and Pleasure of Gardening " and so on, with 
Richard Le Gallienne's essay on " The Joy of Gardens," from " An Old 
Country House " at the end. Miss Waterfield's charming sketches 
add to the book's interest. It is a volume one may take up at any 
time and read and re-read with pleasure at the expression we find 
there of our ideas of what a garden should be. 
" The Garden Blue Book : A Manual of the Perennial Garden." 
By L. B. Holland. Large 8vo. 425 pp. (Horace Cox, London, 1916.) 
Published in London, but printed in New York, the contents of 
this book are mainly for American readers, though all the plants 
mentioned are well known and hardy in this country. Each plant 
is illustrated with a photograph, and the Latin name and very 
often synonyms, the " English " name, habitat, effective period, and 
notes on appearance and cultivation are given. There is nothing 
new to English readers in this part of the book except some of the 
" English " names. (We doubt, e.g., whether Phlox divaricata is ever 
called "Wild Sweet William" in England, or Physostegia "Obedient 
Plant," or Aster ptarmicoides " Yarrow-leaved Starwort.") On the page 
opposite the notes, forms are provided partly for the repetition of some 
of this information, partly for original notes — and some there may be 
who will use them. 
Much of the information is repeated in a somewhat novel form 
on the two charts which preface the book, and in addition there are 
chapters on the arrangement of the garden for giving good effects 
throughout the year, or at least from May to October. 
The title is evidently derived from the colour of the cover. 
" Manuring for Higher Crop Production." By E. J. Russell. 8vo. 
69 pp. (University Press, Cambridge, 1916.) 3s. net. 
The name of Dr. Russell is sufficient guarantee that the contents 
of this little book will be well digested, will deal with the points of 
contact between practice and science, and will show how scientific 
discoveries and observations can be turned to practical use. The 
subjects dealt with are largely of the farm, but the principles to be 
applied in manuring the garden are the same as those finding their 
application on the farm. The increased productiveness of the land 
depends upon improved methods of management and the better feeding 
of the plants. Methods of management of garden land are different 
from those of farm land, but methods of feeding crops are the same, 
and every gardener may read with profit what Dr. Russell has to say 
upon the subject. Particularly desirable is it that the chapter dealing 
with the storage of dung should be carefully read, for this useful 
commodity is rarely stored in gardens in the way it ought to be stored 
- — sheltered from wind and rain as far as possible and well compacted. 
