& Mulberry Streets, Harrisburg, Pa. Editorial office, 15 East 40th 
Street, New York City. Price, $2.00. 
The number published in October, 1919, contains a check list of 
plants mentioned in the Arnold Arboretum Bulletins. The plants are 
listed as to size, name, time of blooming and habitat. A short descrip- 
tion of each plant as to color and habit of growth is also given. 
G. S. W. 
Ten books recommended as the nucleus for a garden Hbrary, all 
of which have been reviewed in the Bulletin. 
What England Can Teach Us About Gardening. By William Miller, 
Ph. D. 
My Garden Series. By E. A. Bowles. 
Color Schemes for the Flower Garden. By Gertrude Jekyll. 
The Well Considered Garden. By Mrs. Francis King. 
The Garden Month by Month. By Mabel Cabot Sedgfiwick. 
Studies in Gardening. By A. Clutton-Brock. 
The Flower and the Bee. By John H. Lovell. 
Rock Gardening for Amateurs. By H. H. Thomas. 
Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect. 
The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing. By George C. 
Thomas Jr. 
Departments 
The Garden The Autumn is upon us, this season's garden is an accomplished 
Miscellany ^^5^' nothing we can do now will fill the bare spaces or cover up our 
mistakes. It is a time for stock-taking, seed-collecting, experience 
meetings and good resolutions. 
Stock-taxing In these delicious balmy days and cool nights the garden is (should 
be!) at its prime and there is a sense of rest and peace caused by the 
futility of further effort this year. We should relax, take to our garden 
chairs and quietly contemplate our gardens as a whole, making notes 
of our mistakes and successes before the excitement of fall work 
begins. 
White Have you forgotten (as I have) the value of White used as high 
lights? I made the careless mistake of placing two or three varieties of 
white plants together, losing all their personality .... white 
Phlox, Nicotine, Cleome and Artimesia lactiftora .... a perfect 
hodge-podge. White annual Lupin and White Phlox on the other hand 
are charming together because of their great difference of form. White 
is the salt of the garden and it should be scattered thoroughly through 
the borders to give the airy, fluffy feeling. 
Reserves Did you remember to have a good stock of annuals, that enjoy 
transplanting, in a reserve bed to fill in those dreadful gaps caused 
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