flowers are generally blue. Flower fidelity. Why the rose, supposedly 
the sweetest of flowers, yields no nectar. We instantly want to know 
more of these exquisite democratic joys which we call flowers; bee- 
flowers, wind-flowers, and bird-flowers, and of those Bees who serve 
them, in the ever-recurring cycle of Life. 
M. H. B. McK. 
A Little Garden the Year Round, by Gardner Teall. E, P. Button 
& Co. Price $2.00. 
Anyone with the priceless gift of imagination, and possessing 
a small plot of ground where-on to make a garden, — or even one al- 
ready established, — would do well to read Mr. Teall's book. 
I say imagination, because though written with meticulous care 
and most pleasantly expressed, there is no very great originaHty of 
suggestion. 
The chapters are short and full of practical information, and 
though it does not inspire one to fly out ^vith hoe and spade before the 
book is half read, yet it makes one feel the charm of a garden not too 
large for personal care. M. H. B. McK. 
Aristocrats of the Garden, by Ernest H. Wilson. Doubleday, Page 
& Co. Price $5.00. 
All who know what Mr. Wilson has accomplished for the world 
of horticulture will appreciate that this book has behind it an endless 
fund of knowledge on the subject. 
A Blue Book of the Garden, a floral Burke's Peerage, maybe; 
it contains the family histories of the best in Garden Society. Even 
the family skeletons are discussed, which makes for spicy reading. 
To quote Mr. Wilson himself, "How many garden lovers ever 
pause to think of the means whereby their gardens become endowed 
with multifarious variety from distant lands and climes. . . Could 
the denizens of our gardens give speech, their story would be more 
engrossing and more romantic than that conceived by the authors of 
the best sellers." 
The book is worth the price if only for the sake of the last Chapter, 
describing the quest of the now famous Davidia Tree. 
Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, by Charles Wendell Townsend, 
M. D. The Page Company, Boston, Mass., 1913. 
It breathes of salt spray and dancing sunlight. An ideal book to 
take along if a summer by the sea is planned. H. M. S. 
*Rock Gardening for Amateurs, by H. H. Thomas. Cassell & Co., 
New York. 
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