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THE GARDENING WORLD 
August 24, 1907. 
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The above is the title of a book written 
by Mr. George F. Miller, running to 136 
pp., including an index. The garden con¬ 
cerning which he writes is under a quarter 
of an acre, and he writes as an amateur 
with the object of assisting amateurs. He 
does not, however, confine his source of 
inspiration to this one garden, but goes 
elsewhere occasionally for pictures to il¬ 
lustrate his ideas. In a chapter headed 
“Art or Nature” he says that there is a 
peculiar charm about old country gar¬ 
dens in which Gooseberries, Raspberries, 
Apples, Pears, Cloves, Lilies, Roses and 
Bachelor's Buttons jostle one another. 
When, however, he comes to look into the 
matter he finds that it is impossible to 
lay out a garden with the object of mak¬ 
ing it beautiful and useful at the same 
time, for the reason that fruit trees to be 
useful have got to be dealt with from 
that point of view. Nevertheless, there 
are interesting gardens— and modern 
ones, too— precisely of that pattern. 
After discussing some interesting and 
beautiful scenes he passes on to deal with 
breadth in the garden, and on that he says 
one ought to have something of the land¬ 
scape gardener’s art in his composi¬ 
tion, and goes on to explain this 
by passing into a garden in order to 
see what chiefly strikes one. He is a be¬ 
liever in English landscape, and thinks 
that the whole garden should be so laid 
out .as to present one comprehensive and 
harmonious whole—a picture as if it were 
painted by one of the best artists. 
On the other hand, in passing down the 
garden, it may be, individual objects, as 
it were, much impress themselves upon 
the eve of the visitor. This is not as it 
should be from a landscape gardener’s 
point of view, as. the garden should im¬ 
press one as a whole. All the trees, 
shrubs and flowers should give a certain 
amount of light and shade, producing one 
picture, as it were. When he comes to 
analyse this, however, he says it is im¬ 
possible to state exactly how this can be 
followed out in other cases. Even Ruskin 
failed to detect tangible rules by which 
Turner had been guided in producing 
his landscapes. We presume this is the 
old story of the painter to his boy, in say¬ 
ing that colours had to be mixed with 
brains. 
The fundamental principle of an Eng¬ 
lish garden, he considers, is greensward 
and that the whole garden is built upon 
that in one comprehensive whole. From 
that point of view he then proceeds to give 
instructions as to how lawns should be 
made and the trees planted to fill in the 
rough outlines. The writer of this book 
takes quite a different idea of a garden 
from that described by Mr. Eden Phill- 
pots on p. 518. The latter, however, is 
very largely devoted to alpines. Those 
who like these differences of ideas can, of 
course, consult the original, and the book 
may be had of Messrs. Methuen and Co.. 
36, Essex Street, London, W.C., for 
3s. 6d. 
About Greenfly. 
An Article Describing this Pest 
And Showing How to Deal with it. 
Very little description is needed as re¬ 
gards this pest, for it is hardly conceiv¬ 
able anyone possessing a plant house, 
garden, or, for that matter, only a solitary 
Rose tree, being unfamiliar with these 
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Green-fly. 
The wingless female. 
creatures. If in doubt one need only ex¬ 
amine a little more closely the numerous 
wild flowers in the fields and hedgerows, 
when they alike will often be found to 
be a prey to one or other species of these 
insects. " Though possibly varying in 
colour according to the surroundings, they 
all belong to one class “Aphidae or 
Aphis,” as known in the horticultural 
world. They are with us at all seasons, 
but it is during the spring and summer 
that they are most troublesome, by reason 
of their marvellous power of reproduction, 
aided by” the warm weather. That they 
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Stem -punctured by Greenfly. 
cause great harm to all plants by their 
presence thereon is undeniable, since they 
subsist on the juices extracted from them ; 
thus robbing the plant of that which is of 
vital importance to its well-being. From 
their attacks the plants assume quickly .a 
blighted appearance, hence the derivation 
of the name “blight,” used when speak¬ 
ing of the presence of this pest. 
With the small beak or trunk-like ter¬ 
mination of the head (see illustration 
they pierce the stalks of the plants and 
likewise the tissues of the leaves, always 
in their softest parts, in order to obtain 
their food. This food they absorb in 
.large quantities, and eject much filth in 
the form of a secretion commonly called 
honeydew, which adheres to the plants, 
giving them that sticky feeling so un¬ 
pleasant to the touch. No one who values 
one’s plants or trees will tolerate their 
existence after once observed, but will im¬ 
mediately take means to destroy them. 
Fortunately they are not difficult of eradi¬ 
cation, and since the ways and means of 
doing so are so simple and easy, there 
cannot possibly be any excuse for allow¬ 
ing plants, etc., to become infested with 
them. 
Plants in houses can be quickly 
cleansed by fumigation, using for the pur¬ 
pose one of the many vaporising insecti- 
