Those who can plant these trees appropriately will find 
pleasure and inspiration in Mr. Veiteh's article. And those who 
live, as I do, in a climate unfriendly to so many of these exotic 
beauties, can add one more dream garden to those already exist- 
ing in our minds, even if they are never accomplished by our 
hands. 
Come into the Garden. Grace Tabor. 
Macmillan. Price $2.50. 
On the twenty-fourth page of Miss Tabor's excellent new 
book occurs this paragraph : 
• "We are and always have been a nation of wasters; nowhere 
is this more apparent than in our handling of these small home 
plots. If we could reform ourselves in this respect it would be 
a great accomplishment from the esthetic as well as the practical 
point of view. For it is not so much a matter of money 
— although it counts decidedly in real cash — but a matter of 
sound judgment ; of good habits of order and efficiency and use- 
fulness; of quickening the faculty of appreciation. Moreover, 
although we have not needed to husband the natural resources 
of this fine and fat land wherein we are the fortunate dwellers, 
to any appreciable degree, the time is not so far distant when 
we shall be obliged to do so. ' ' 
Here lies the book's real flavor; an underlying sense of 
values ; a direct, one might almost say a stout, way of putting this 
into words; and upon this common-sense foundation a most 
valuable treatise on the division, improving and use of the small 
ground about the average house. 
Was this book needed or was it not? For answer I ask you 
to walk with me along the average street of the average 
American town. What do we see? Not a fence, not a hedge, 
here and there perhaps a line of ill-kept Spirea Van Houtteii 
below a house porch, and standing as we do, under the lines of 
street trees, usually unhappy maples, — a wilderness of shameless 
garages as background for these houses. There is no pictorial 
interest anywhere. Miss Tabor would change this scene into 
one of an agreeable, a beautiful type. And her book, with its 
background of knowledge, practical experience and fine 
standards, should be in the hands of all small-town and 
suburban gardeners. Yes, it should be in the hands, too, of those 
owners of larger gardens, like many in the Garden Club of 
America. For since it is our frequent privilege and pleasure 
to help our neighbors, by suggestion as well as by example, we 
can not only get for ourselves great profit and pleasure from 
this book, with its pretty title and valuable advice, but can aid 
immeasurably in the matter of general gardening advance by 
making the book known to others. 
Louisa Y. King. 
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