gardens both large and smajl, and all the newer books give much the 
same advice. 
There are three new books, however, which seem to be well adapted 
to the present state of affairs. "Garden Farming," by Lee Cleve- 
land Corbett, (Ginn and Co.), and "Vegetable Gardening" by Ralph 
L. Watts (Orange Judd Co.), give expert advice for large farms and 
estates, but the latter may well be read by the beginner who intends to 
hoe her own patch. It is thorough and sound and tells the reason why. 
A valuable book for the beginner with a little land and much 
enthusiasm is "The Home Vegetable Garden," by Adolph Kruhm 
(Orange Judd Co.), written during the first year of the war, and which 
has guided many stumbling feet. There is a great deal of information 
in it, boiled down to the smallest possible reading matter. Mr. 
Kruhm has contributed much to the Garden Magazine, and knows 
well the needs of his readers. 
Another book by Mr. Kruhm, "Home Vegetable Gardening from 
A to Z." (Doubleday,Page&Co., price $1.25) has just been published. 
This bids fair to be even more helpful than the one just mentioned. 
Read these books — read them all if you have time — and grow 
ammunition for the war with more intelUgence and less expense. 
Henrietta M. Stout. 
Shore Hills Garden Club. 
"An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design," — by Henry 
Vincent Hubbard and Theodora Kimball. The Macmillan Company. 
Price, $6.00. 
One might almost add "A Preparation for the Enjoyment of 
Life" — so definite and so illuminating are the appreciations of color 
and form and scale, and so delightful is the authors' enjoyment of 
what they call, "the waywardness of charm." Excellent technical 
drawings illustrate the clearly given information that fills the hundreds 
of pages of this book, which the charm of personality and of literary 
style makes doubly enjoyable. It is an education in itself, and a most 
impressive example of its authors' wide knowledge, and their ability 
to convey that knowledge with clarity and precision, and to arouse 
in at least one reader an enthusiasm that makes her want to shout its 
excellencies from the house-tops in spite of the dull first chapter. 
The illustrations are unworthy of so good a book. However, 
attractive they may have been in the artists' notebooks, they are 
indefinite and monotonous when we find them in such a choice com- 
pany of words, and the reader turns with rehef to the beautiful 
photograph that is the frontispeice. Louise S. Hubbard. 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
