IRevtews 
Garden Trees and Shrubs, by Walter P. Wright, Publisher 
MRS. ANDERSON, Garden Club of Michigan 
This thick volume contains a remarkable variety of information and 
is valuable for an agreeable and direct style, as a guide to cultivation and 
arrangement and as a reference book for varieties of trees and shrubs, 
down to the late novelties. The illustrations are copious, fine photo- 
graphs, charming and accurate color photographs, and some reproduc- 
tions of paintings, among which those by Beatrice Parsons have much 
artistic merit. Especially good are the well systematized directions for 
pruning, the suggestions for hedge planting, the recommendation of 
"more water than manure for the first years of shrubs." It is always 
disappointing to the American of the Northern States to find many things 
recommended which are not hardy with us, but our thorough catalogue 
will enable us to avoid mistakes. I note the statement that Cydonia 
Japonica has "large red fruits" with some surprise, having never seen 
them anything but light yellow. 
The book is full of good things, such as "Resignation in the per- 
petuation of an error in planting trees and shrubs should be the last re- 
source of the true garden lover;" "Beds of flowers are not gardening at 
all, in the true sense." He also emphasizes the selection of the best 
varieties in shrub planting, deprecating the reproduction of the commoner 
effects which have already become shop worn. 
To the botanist the reference of a plant to its order would be 
satisfactory, but is seldom found in garden books. Altogether this book 
may serve (as old Copeland dedicated his book to country life) to 
"attract to the practice of culture some who will see that the pursuit is 
full of pleasure, with no more than a healthy amount of labor — and 
both expands the mind and ennobles the soul." 
The Practical Book of Garden Architecture, by Phoebe 
Westcott Humphreys 
MRS. ARTHUR SCRIBNER, Bedford Garden Club 
Garden books, however delightful, are but a makeshift. If every 
time we desired knowledge of gardening we could step out into a garden 
that somewhere offered the particular information we sought, we would 
never turn to books. As it is, we learn more from visiting established 
gardens, especially gardens that time has made beautiful often in spite 
of the owner, than we do from garden literature entire. Next to visiting 
gardens for inspiration and knowledge, we may consult books that fortu- 
nately reproduce for us, however inadequately, the celebrated gardens in 
existence. Foremost among these are "The Gardens of Italy" and 
"Gardens Old and New." 
