The maintenance consists of an occasional coat of paint, a cover in 
winter and a weekly change of water, the last being imperative, 
since the absolute cleanliness of the white bottom is its great beauty. 
The pool is set in the center of a formal blue and white garden. 
At each end a white pergola shelters a seat. Over these grow blue 
and white wistaria vines. The beds are simply a setting for the pool 
and follow its general outline. The whole garden lies twenty-five 
feet below the house, can be seen from the windows and is the most 
interesting thing on the place. 
The planting presented great difficulties. The northern exposure 
of the garden permits the spray and the cutting, driving winds from 
the lake to sweep it from October to May, and in summer the blazing 
sun makes it dreadfully hot, even on a moderately warm day. All 
tall, weak-stemmed plants had to be abandoned and many others 
were not sufficiently hardy. The following plants are proving suc- 
cessful: blue anchusa, both dark and light; forget-me-nots; salvia 
azurea; plumbago Larpente, and the low belladonna delphinium, with 
scillas for spring. White: madonna lilies; English and Japanese iris, 
and the following varieties of phlox: Miss Lingard, Mrs. Jenkins and 
Von Lassburg. The seeds of the annual Empress candytuft and nigella 
were scattered among the iris and scillas, and these, with a few aster 
plants, have made a mass of bloom all summer. 
Jessica McMurray, 
Garden Club of Cleveland. 
Book Reviews 
Under the headings of "Rural Textbook Series" and "Rural 
Science Series," Luther H. Bailey is editing and Macmillan is publish- 
ing a number of books valuable in country life, whether professional 
or amateur. 
"The Principles of Plant Culture," by the late E. S. Goff, revised 
by J. G. Moore and L. R. Jones, is at once simple and thoroughly 
scientific. From gardening as a science to gardening as an art is not 
so far a cry as one might think, and the habit of close observation is 
the best training for either. A study of the principles of plant life 
not only tells us what to do and how to do it, but explains why to 
do it, changing our experimental method . into a logical one. A 
reference to this book will teach and explain almost all the processes 
used in gardening. Most artistic gardeners have already come to 
understand that success means scientific work. 
A second volume in the Rural Science Series is "Subtropical 
Vegetable Gardening," by P. H. Rolfs, which is the result of observa- 
tion at the Experimental Station of Florida. 
