are brief and good, as are the cultural directions. While nothing 
new has been said throughout the volume it will be helpful to 
many who have not large libraries to depend upon. 
M. H. W. Lloyd. 
Rose Gardening. Mary Hampden. 
Town Gardening. Mary Hampden. 
Bulb Gardening. Mary Hampden. 
1922 Chas. Scribner 's .Sons. $2.75 per vol. 
These three handy little books are a reprint from the English 
Home Garden Series, published in 1921 by Butterworth and 
adapted for American use. They are attractively illustrated and 
will prove useful for the amateur, but the lists of Roses in the 
first book should be gone over with the American Rose Annual 
before ordering, for many of the varieties have not been tried in 
this climate. On the whole the Bulb book is the best of the set 
and there are many helpful ideas in it. 
We have long needed a book on Suburban American Garden- 
ing and Town Gardening only partially fills the bill. It 
sounds like the garden plots of semi-detached villas at Maida 
Vale and we have little that corresponds to that unless it be 
Hoboken or Camden, yet there are many little points of interest 
in it such as: "Draughts kill countless plants, shrubs and even 
trees. The side alley by the house, usually the tradesman's path, 
makes a bad wind-shaft." 
A. G. H. 
Bidbous Plants for the Garden. T. A. Weston. Illustrated. 
A. T. deLa Mare Co. Inc., New York. 
This timely little pamphlet of sixteen pages is hardly more 
than the directions we find in the more elaborate Bulb Catalogs 
but is put up in a soluable or "fool proof" form and most 
convenient to tuck into your tool basket. I wish the author had 
added a concise table showing the depths to plant the bulbs 
which is to be found in La Mare's earlier Garden Handbook. 
A. G. H. 
Gardener's Miscellany 
I wish you could see my little "Grey Garden" just now. As 
I write I glance down from my window into its tossing mass of 
gay fall bloom and over its walls to the blue ocean beyond. The 
tall purple Michaelmas Daisies and their lavender cousins are 
at their height, quantities of pink Phlox, white Boltonia, bronze 
Tlelenium and the useful Ageratum and pale yellow Cecile 
Dahlias are blooming their last great burst of beauty in the 
clear sunshine of this first October day. This garden is at its 
very best just now. It seems to have forgiven me for doing 
those things which I ought not to have done and leaving undone 
those things that I should have done to it all summer long. The 
walls are a mass of the Turquoise-berry vine, Vitis humilif alia, 
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