due of course to a long life of study and practice, to that quiet born 
of knowledge. Yet enthusiasm pervades each page. Speaking of the 
quality of hght as it affects flower-groups on certain days we read: 
"When these days come I know them and am filled with gladness." 
Again; "I am truly glad to have that space (ten acres) to treat with 
reverent thankfulness and watchful care." On the second page of 
Colour in the Flower Garden, in that paragraph beginning " Coming 
down towards the garden" is as lovely an example of Miss Jekyll's 
delight in beauty as is to be found in any of her books. And following 
this, we find in one sentence what one might call her creed, — "To 
devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers, seems to 
me the best thing to do in gardening." 
The photographs of the book are delightful, the plans for borders 
and for gardens as valuable as such things can be. Witness that for 
the Lupine and Iris border, another for Michaelmas Daisies, for a 
border of Spring bulbs — these are guides to the utmost loveliness for 
ourselves. 
Miss Margaret Waterfield's Garden Colour (E. P. Button & Com- 
pany) published some three years before Miss Jekyll's volume on the 
same subject is a useful and charming book by five writers for those 
interested in such matters; and Mrs. S. A. Brown's Gar dens to Color and 
Individual Gardens (Knickerbocker Press), though a less ambitious 
book, is a capital small guide by an American, with excellent con- 
densed lists of flowers and plants. 
To Miss Jekyll, however, every amateur in this country and in 
Britain bows the knee ; and I doubt if she will ever realize the untold 
number of those whose feet she has set upon the path of beauty in 
gardening, or the simple fact that all who read her, become her fol- 
lowers and her friends as well. Louisa Y. King, 
*The Well Considered Garden, by Mrs. Francis King. Charles 
Scribner's Sons. Price, $2.50. 
Quaint old books of garden designers show us that much more was 
contained in a garden two centuries ago, than now, it had many more 
adjuncts and furnishings, but it is not told us that there was the 
harmony of shade and color that Mrs. Francis King describes so 
beautifully for us in her, "Well Considered Garden.''^ 
Verbal magic is indeed Mrs. King's, when she tells us of the lovely 
combinations wh^ch she has planned, beginning with the earliest 
spring flowers, and carrying the pictures through the season's months 
of bloom. 
The writer is indebted to Mrs. King, for much inspiration, and a 
number of lovely color effects, effects which however, never exactly 
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