BOOK REVIEWS 
The Literary Committee submits the following outline of its 
program in accordance with the Plan for the Enlargement and Im- 
provement of the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America. 
1. Reviews of the best recently pubHshed books on gardening. 
2. Retrospective reviews of older books especially suitable for 
the nucleus of a Garden Library, the Ust to be selected with 
the aid of the best advice procurable. All books marked (*), 
whether new or old, are among those considered suitable for this 
permanent library. 
3. Comments on articles of special interest appearing in the 
leading garden magazines published in this country and abroad. 
*A Trilogy op the Garden 
"My Garden Series" by E. A. Bowles, M. A. Dodge Publishing 
Company. ($2.50 per volume.) 
" My Garden in Spring," "My Garden in Summer," "My Garden 
in Autumn and Winter." 
If you have never been fortunate enough to walk through Mr. 
Bowles' Garden in the "really- truly," then do it in the "make- 
believe." Pull up your favorite chair to the fireside some frosty 
evening, and begin first on "My Garden in Spring." 
Mr. Bowles will lead you down to the river bank and along half 
hidden paths where snowdrops and primroses, early iris, crocus, and 
dafifodils smUe up at you, and later the stately tulips survey you with 
their quiet dignity. He \\dll talk to you intimately of the plants, and 
tell you how he succeeded in making each rare variety, brought from 
some distant land, feel content and happy in its new surroundings. 
His children of the garden are tended with love and care for their 
comfort, and they repay him for fold ynih their mass of bloom and 
healthy foliage. 
Then, when you wonder if this ground becomes bare and brown 
after "daffy" has gone, take "My Garden in Summer," and Mr. 
Bowles will lead you down the same walks, now a riot of bearded 
flags, June Hhes, flowering shrubs and pretty creeping things. And 
he win explain the magic of his touch and straight away you will 
want to get up and go out with a lantern to dig up your own garden, 
even if it be near midnight and snowing hard. 
Then read "My Garden in Autumn and Winter" and learn how to 
carry on the mass of colour until winter finally puts it all to sleep 
tucked imder its thick white blanket. 
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