Mr. Bowles is a scientist, and one sometimes wishes that he 
would call his children more often by their Christian names; thought 
perhaps it is just as well, for his collection contains the rarest varieties 
of every species, and we may not recognize them any other way. 
We must always bear in mind, however, that his garden is in 
England, and not here, where the winter temperatures try to run the 
mercury out of the bulb, and the heat of our summers tries the 
strength of all but the hardiest. 
We cannot in our climate grow "hardy" palms, nor have Iris 
Unguicularis blooming from November to March. Nor do we need 
to plant our campanulas on gravel soil, and wall in the rose garden to 
keep it warm. 
Nevertheless every page contains valuable information as well as 
inspiration. To quote Mr. Reginald Farrer in his preface, " Come into 
Mr. Bowles' garden and learn what true gardening is ... . There 
are nowadays so many gardeners that gardens are growing every 
year more rare." (Signed) Henrietta M. Stout. 
* "What England can teach us about Gardening" — by Wilhelm 
Miller, Ph. D. ($5.00) 
Mr. Miller gives as the purpose of his books the desire to inspire 
Americans to make more and better gardens and after a careful 
reading no one could fail to feel that inspiration. There are one hun- 
dred and twenty beautiful illustrations, eight of them in color. The 
pictures are all of English gardens, but the particular merit of the 
book is that it tells us how to get the exquisite English effects with the 
material at our command, and at this time when the quarantine 
against foreign grown nursery stock narrows our choice, the more we 
can learn about our native plant material the better. 
The book is divided into chapters dealing with gardening in its 
different forms, making it possible to find readily the subject in which 
one is interested, and foot notes give references for an infinite amount 
of further reading. 
The chapter on Conifers is especially helpful. Many evergreens 
which thrive in England or on the Pacific Coast languish on the 
Atlantic Seaboard, and we are given their equivalent for purposes of 
effect in material, which, whether native or an introduction from China 
or Japan, is adapted to our conditions and will prove long lived. 
We all so ardently wish to make our country more beautiful, to 
achieve the look of finish and luxuriance of growth which makes all of 
England seem Hke a garden; and in every page we are shown how to 
accomplish this without loss of time and the making of costly mistakes. 
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