Notes and Reviews 
HROUGHOUT the gleaming pages of 
“Gardens Old and New” 1 are fourscore 
gardens of England, illustrating the formal 
and informal, the landscape and naturalistic 
persuasion ol English designers. Old 
gardens here appear as neighbors to new 
places laid out by Mr. Lutyens, Miss 
Jekyll and others. The book is a welcome 
sequel to a volume of the same title and 
form, which appeared two years ago. The 
material consists of the garden articles of the 
of garden illustration. And yet a compari¬ 
son between this volume and the former 
one, if not betraying signs of the end of the 
supply, undoubtedly foretells a difference in 
the character of the supply. The illustra¬ 
tions are technically superb, and represent, 
perhaps, the perfection of the half-tone 
process. This is largely due to the quality 
of the photographs, and their quality in turn 
to the perseverance of Mr. Latham, who has 
a reputation for waiting indefinitely until 
THE DRAGON FOUNTAIN STAIRWAY AT BR O KEN H U R ST. From “ Gardens Old and New" 
“old and new” series which have appeared 
in English Country Life. The great number 
of English gardens which that weekly has 
published, the fact that Mr. Latham, its 
photographer, has supplied it with material 
tor several years ahead, and the garden views 
which England offers to amateurs and trav¬ 
elers would indicate an inexhaustible mine 
hardens Old and New, edited by John Leyland. 284 pp., 
quarto, with many half-tune illustrations. London, George Newnes, 
Ltd., 1903. New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons. Price, $12.00, 
net. 
light and weather make the right conditions. 
As to the subject matter, between the scenes 
of scarcely modified nature on the one hand, 
and on the other the views containing archi¬ 
tecture alone, the present volume illustrates 
less success than its predecessor in the con¬ 
junction of horticulture and architecture, 
from the point of view of garden design. The 
book, however, does not aim at presenting the 
technical side of garden-craft. It presents it 
pictorially only, and it does that excellently. 
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