The Princeton Garden Club has asked for and been given an Princeton 
alcove in the Princeton Public Library, in which it is the ambition Garden 
of the club to build up a nature library to appeal to young and Club 
old. The collection began in conjunction with the work of our 
wild flower preservation committee. Because of the interest 
aroused by exhibits of flowers, seed-pods, evergreens, birds 's nests, 
etc., arranged in the library by the aforesaid committee, there 
arose a great demand for books on such subjects, a demand which 
was met, at first, by the gift of a few books from individual 
members of the Garden Club. These first books seemed to act as 
magnets, drawing to the library shelves many books from various 
sources, and, best of all, perhaps, bringing to the Garden Club 
a long and excellent list of suggestions from the teacher of horti- 
culture in the Public School and our very progressive Librarian, 
as to nature books which would be interesting and useful to 
persons of all ages. This list, including books on trees, flowers, 
ferns, fungi, birds, animals and insects, as well as horticultural 
books from the simplest child's guide to Bailey's invaluable 
encyclopaedia, has been adopted as our guide, and we have made 
a fair beginning in our alcove. The money with which these 
books have been purchased comes in part from our "French 
Market," held on Saturday mornings during the spring. On a 
corner of the main street, under a gay awning, is sold the surplus 
from the gardens of Club members — flowers, fruits, vegetables, 
plants, and also eggs, cheese, butter, and occasionally squabs and 
chickens from the members who are farmers as well as gardeners. 
Turning from this engrossing undertaking to the flowers in 
our autunm gardens, is not this the time of year when the dis- 
covery of a new combination of flowers may be very acceptable? 
Some of the plantings which may be suggestive are as follows: 
Various gladioli with lavender perennial Asters, among the best 
of these being gladiolus Mrs. Francis King, whose warm flame 
colour provides a delicious contrast with the cool lavender of the 
Asters; primulinus varieties, whose yellow and apricots show to 
great advantage against the Aster background, and Baron Hulot 
whose colour seems to be that of the Asters intensified. To obtain 
these effects, the Gladioli in this garden axe planted late, from 
the middle to the end of June, which ensures their flowering from 
the end of September for about a month. A June combination of 
Gladiolus Baron Hulot with the baby-rambler Rose Orleans, the 
rich purple and vivid rose b.eing very beautiful together, can 
easily be converted into an autumn one by planting the Gladiolus 
late — the rose blooming, with the obliging manners of all her 
' ' baby ' ' sisters until hard frost. An interesting September plant- 
ing which might almost be called a "colour echo" is of the 
so called "blue spirea," Caryopteris masticantkus with shell- 
pink tall Snapdragons, repeated on a smaller scale by "tall 
blue" Ageratum, of almost exactly the blue of the caryopteris, 
49 
