We announce with much pride and pleasure that Mrs. Francis 
King, of the Michigan Garden Club, is about to give us the result of her 
unusually successful experience in "The Well-Considered Garden," 
Charles Scribner's Sons, a book of essays very fully illustrated, partly 
collected from her published writing and partly entirely new. Miss 
Gertrude Jekyl, the well-known English writer, contributes the preface, 
which is in itself a title of distinction. 
We also look forward to an extremely useful little book, "Planting 
to Attract the Birds," compiled by Mrs. Horatio W. Turner, of the 
Garden Club of Princeton, published by Munder-Thompson Company, 
Water and Gay Streets, Baltimore (price sixty cents), with the purpose 
of assisting builders of bird gardens in making a selection of the trees 
and shrubs that help provide the birds with food. Mrs. Turner's book 
may also be obtained from the Garden Gateway, 48th Street, New York, 
who requested Mrs. Turner to make the book, and from the Secretary 
of the Garden Club of America. 
There are probably few members of the Garden Club to whom the 
name of Ellen Wilmott is not known. Last Summer Mrs. Russell, of 
Princeton, and Mrs. Henry, of Philadelphia, representing the Garden 
Club of America, had the pleasure of visiting this distinguished rosarian 
at her home, Great Warley, Essex. Miss Wilmott herself proved a great 
inspiration, as did also her wonderful garden, where are thousands of 
different species and varieties of plants grown under natural conditions 
in the open, a living herbarium — the work of a lifetime. Miss Wilmott 
showed much interest in the Garden Club, promising an article on 
"Wild Roses" for our last number, and flattering us greatly by writing: 
"The Bulletin is most interesting. I shall be proud to contribute to it." 
But the war came! Now Miss Wilmott writes: "Every spare moment 
I spend in my garden, for the fewer the hands the more need for organ- 
ization and careful thinking out what can best be left undone so as to 
cause the least permanent deterioration to the garden." Matter for 
thought here! "We have twenty-five Belgian refugees absolutely desti- 
tute. It is a large party to keep and clothe, and I am more than ever 
anxious to sell some copies of my book toward the little fund." 
This book is the "Genus Rosa," in twenty-two parts, illustrated 
with exquisite colored plates by Alfred Parsons, will cost about $175, 
including the customs duty, and is very beautiful and of great tech- 
nical value and accuracy. It is, in fact, the "Audubon" of the Rose, 
and the Garden Club is proud to introduce it into America. Any one 
who desires to own this beautiful work of science and art may order it 
directly from Miss Ellen Wilmott, Great Warley, Essex. 
Mrs. Bayard Henry, Germantown, Philadelphia, has a specimen 
number, which she will send if desired. 
