loaned or appropriated. All too soon are the penciled notes taken at 
some helpful garden talk mislaid, or their context forgotten. 
In the permanent form of a book, a number of Mrs. Francis King's 
valuable talks and articles remain ever safely at hand. Varied in topic 
and rich in suggestions, this book will be a mine of ideas for the 
industrious gardener. 
The chapter on "Lilacs and Other Spring Flowers" shows an 
affectionate acquaintance with that loveliest of shrubs, the hybrid 
syringa. Here Mrs. King's wonderful gift of seeing and describing 
color would turn the most stolid into a fervent collector. To those 
who already know even a few of the new lilacs will come a firm deter- 
mination to own all varieties within their reach. Truly, to quote the 
author, "the collecting and comparing of such subjects is well worth 
the endeavors of many years of a gardener's life. " 
The chapters on the ''Arnold Arboretum," "Vocations for Wo- 
men in Agriculture," and "Bright-Berried Growth for the Winter 
Garden" are also of especial interest. 
The quotations from the Letters of Horace Walpole, fourth Earl 
of Orford, show the quaint charm and dehcious naivete of many of 
Gilbert White's epistles. So well selected and so well placed are these 
quotations that they make a deHghtful accompaniment to Mrs. 
King's own sprightly notes. 
Mrs. King's keen and passionate eye for color and her stimulat- 
ing enthusiasm make this book a welcome continuation of her work 
so delightfully begun in The Well-Considered Garden. 
Alice Harding. 
The Garden Doctor. By Frederick L. Chittenden, F.L.S., 
V.M.H. (Director of the Royal Horticultural Society's Experi- 
mental Gardens at Wisely, England). 
This is, as its distinguished authorship would lead one to ex- 
pect, a book which is a model of scientific and accurate observa- 
tion of the causes of, and treatment for, the various diseases and 
pests common to plant life. That it is primarily important for 
EngUsh horticulturists is apparent from glancing at the list of illus- 
trations where such enemies as "Chick Beetle" "Lackey Moth 
Caterpillar" "Bitter Pit," etc., are mentioned with other pests 
equally unfamiliar (to this reviewer at least), and without some of 
our common American ones. It should, however, prove of great value 
to horticulturists everywhere, dealing as it does with so many of the 
diseases and disasters common to all chmates. 
Mr. Chittenden divides his book roughly into two parts, — the first 
dealing with the causes of, and the treatment for, the attacks of 
fungus, and second, with those of animal or insect enemies. Both 
parts are profusely illustrated and the small volume is an admirable 
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