best of all "Formal Garden of Japanese Plants." This last plan is 
one that the most advanced gardener of us all would do well to try 
out. It marks a long step forward in horticulture to-day and cannot 
be too highly commended. The blue-print "Plan for a Small Sub- 
urban Lot" is exceedingly valuable. The "Plan for a Poppy Bed" is 
delightful; so is that for a "Small Informal Garden." There is most 
excellent ability and taste shown in these plans — such interest in the 
subject in the text that it is a pleasure to commend the book. There 
is no gardening subject of which we are all so ignorant as of garden 
design; and the Book of Garden Plans must prove an educational 
force among amateurs as well as an immense pleasure to all who 
consult it seriously. Louisa Y. King. 
The Garden under Glass. W. F. Rowles; J. B. Lippincott & 
Co. This book is written by one who understands the subject from 
its very foundation. The beginner will do well to keep it constantly 
at hand, for the mysteries of greenhouse culture are made so simple 
and clear that anyone may understand. As a book of reference it is 
so well arranged that an answer may quickly be found for almost any 
question. It is probably the only book of its kind. 
Henrietta M. Stout. 
A List of Necessary Garden Books 
i. A History oe Gardening in England. Hon. Mrs. Evelyn 
Cecil; Dutton. A delightful review of " the changes which have taken 
place and the fashions which have prevailed" in English gardens. 
2. The Seasons in a Flower Garden. Louise Shelton; 
Scribners. By all odds the best book for the ignorant enthusiast. 
3. Book or Garden Plans. Stephen Hamblin; Doubleday 
Page and Co. The possessor of this book has the equivalent of a 
good landscape-architect beside him in his garden. 
4. Garden Design in Theory and Practice. Madeline Agar; 
Lippincott. A clear exposition of the first principles of landscape 
gardening, very valuable for the amateur. 
5. Art Out of Doors. Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer; Scrib- 
ners. A sound and distinguished work on the first principles of 
landscape gardening and fine gardening from every point of view. 
6. The English Flower Garden. William Robinson; John 
Murray. This gardening classic needs no descriptive word. 
7. Colour in the Flower Garden. Gertrude Jekyll; Country 
Life Library. The most advanced of all books on artistic arrange- 
ment of flowering plants. 
