E. P. Dutton and Co.'s "Garden and Farm Almanac" is a real 
vade mecum for the countryman, packed with useful information and 
suggestions, with estimates of the cost of farm and garden opera- 
tions; containing a number of blueprints of plans for planting grounds 
and gardens, and for buildings as well. Price 25 cents. 
Mary Anderson. 
Garden Club of Michigan. 
The American Rose Annual 
Indispensable to the rose-grower, even on the smallest scale, is 
the first Rose Annual just issued by the American Rose Society. 
Its editor, Mr. J. Horace McFarland, has gathered within its pages 
valuable information on every aspect of rose culture. The many 
articles are by well-known rosarians and cover climatic conditions 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the 
Gulf. Especially useful are the sections "Getting Better Roses" 
and "Enemies of the Rose." There are interesting accounts of the 
various experimental rose gardens and of recent American rose intro- 
ductions. 
The Annual is supplied to all members of the American Rose 
Society. Others may obtain it by sending Si. 00 for Associate Mem- 
bership to B. Hammond, Secretary, Beacon, N. Y. 
The Mary Frances Garden Book 
By Jane Eayre Fryer. Price $1.50. The John C. Winston Com- 
pany, Philadelphia. 
This is one of the few really interesting garden books that has 
appeared in this day of many but doubtfully useful garden books. 
It is designed to give to a child its first lessons in gardening. This 
it does so wisely and well that it beguiles grown-up gardeners, making 
them realize suddenly that in their search for more complicated know- 
ledge they have overlooked fundamentals. It is perfectly simple, 
perfectly direct, and perfectly charming. 
If you have no children, get it for yourself. Its simple formulae 
stick in the mind and its definite explanations leave no vagueness of 
detail. K. L. B. 
