dressed up in my Sunday clothes, ready to enjoy the flowers. But, sud- 
denly, I spy a great big sassy weed right in the midst of my pets. I 
stoop to pull him and discover two or three more near by, then dozens 
loom up — and soon I am covered with mud and confusion and ready 
to aver that gardening is just one darned thing after another! Insects 
and weeds have no more regard for a member of The Garden Club of 
America than for an ordinary human being. 
But, let me confide a secret process to eliminate both pests. I am 
teaching the insects to eat the weeds. The method follows: Catch a 
few healthy insects of each species and confine them for several days 
without food. Be careful not to cage delicate little aphids with brutal 
cut-worms and rose-beetles, but put them in separate bottles. When they 
seem sufficiently hungry give them a meal of dandelions or chickweed 
and note results. After a few weeks' training they grow to like this 
diet and can be released to act as missionaries among their unregenerate 
feIlows * Respectfully submitted, 
Thomas Shields Clarke. 
Book IReviews 
"THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN" 
By MRS. FRANCIS KING 
To see color not in masses only, but in combinations ; to appreciate 
the value of outline, strength of impression, and grace of position in 
plants used in gardens, are rare talents, the use of which can make a 
flower garden an artistic achievement. These are faculties which our 
author possesses, and she has outlined for us, in this delightful book, her 
successes in grouping and arrangement for color, outline, and succession 
of bloom. What lover of gardens has not seen, in various wanderings 
about the earth, lovely effects in color and arrangement and perhaps, 
though that seems to be very rare, a thoroughly harmonious garden? 
But who has attempted to record that beauty with the hope of repro- 
ducing some of it, without a despairing feeling of incompetence? What 
were the varieties used, if the plants themselves were familiar? Nor do 
we know anything about the past and future of the delightful vision. 
Despairing search in catalogues of bulbs, annuals, perennials and shrubs, 
grief over misnamed colors, distraction over tables of "succession of 
bloom!" But take up this careful record and all is made easy, and the 
"Well-considered Garden" will help you to many a combination, giving 
the name and variety of each plant used; for example: 
Pink Canterbury Bells. 
Gypsophilla Paniculata. 
Iris Pallida var. Dalmatica. 
Stachys Lanata. 
Statice Incana. 
