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A Row of House & Garden Books 
(Continued from page 86) 
faults, which account in large measure 
for his lack of material success. He 
was too much of a poet to be a good 
merchant. He was narrow, bigoted, self- 
centred, assertive, jealous of the suc¬ 
cess of others, sharp . of tongue, of an 
intensely artistic temperament. He was 
incapable of catering to the taste of the 
wealthy. But he was big in his artistic 
ideals. He gave his best to the world. 
He brooked no sham. His work shows 
his honesty, refinement, knowledge of his 
art, and unparalleled sense of beauty. 
He was a skilled draughtsman and 
mathematician, a man of culture with 
strong doctrinal proclivities, an ascetic 
in his mode of living. Withal, he was 
the most remarkable figure in the history 
of English furniture.” 
A recent addition to the standard 
Rural Text-Book Series, published by 
The Macmillan Company, is “Soils and 
Fertilizers,” by T. Lyttleton Lyon. Pro¬ 
fessor Lyon writes in detail of such mat¬ 
ters as the formation and consistencies 
of soils, the chemical elements which 
enter into them as available or unavail¬ 
able plant foods, the intelligent purchase 
and use of fertilizers, etc. It is a book 
perhaps more scientific than the average 
home gardener seeks, but there can be 
no question of its value to anyone who 
wishes to gain a thorough comprehension 
of the subjects to which it is devoted. 
A book for the small fruit enthusiast 
is S. W. Fletcher’s “The Strawberry in 
North America” (Macmillan). When 
we see that the sub-title runs “Its His¬ 
tory, Origin, Botany and Breeding” we 
gain an adequate conception of the gen¬ 
eral character of the volume and of the 
ground it covers. The author is Pro¬ 
fessor of Horticulture in the Pennsyl¬ 
vania State College and is especially well 
qualified to prepare a work of interest 
particularly to commercial growers and 
others whose strawberry beds are on a 
large scale. 
Frederick F. Rockwell needs no in¬ 
troduction to House & Garden readers. 
For a number of years we haye been 
publishing regularly his contributions on 
gardening topics. To an unusual de¬ 
gree he combines facility in writing with 
wide first-hand knowledge of practical 
horticulture, a combination which espe¬ 
cially qualifies him to be the author of 
the latest of his many gardening books— 
“Around the Year in the Garden” 
(Macmillan). 
It would seem impossible to include 
within the covers of an average size 
book anything like an adequate survey 
of the entire year’s work with flowers, 
small fruits and vegetables. Mr. Rock¬ 
well has handled the task well, however, 
and by choosing his topics, wisely and 
treating them as briefly as is consistent 
with practical helpfulness he has pro¬ 
duced a volume that should be on every 
gardener’s bookshelf. Every week in the 
year is taken up in turn and the things 
which should be done therein discussed. 
So much that is mediocre has been 
written on the inspiration which Nature 
holds for those who appreciate her moods 
that one is apt to look with a degree 
of hesitancy at a new book on this old 
subject. Yet skepticism will give place 
to enthusiasm within the first dozen 
pages of Walter Prichard Eaton’s “Green 
Trails and Upland Pastures” (Double¬ 
day, Page & Co). Mr. Eaton has 
caught the true spirit of the out-of-doors 
and he transcribes it to these pages with 
the sympathy and insight which those 
who have read his earlier books know 
so well. 
The score of essays which make up 
the volume are quite unrelated and treat 
of scenes both east and west. One can 
journey in fancy to Cap’n Bradley’s 
house by the side of Salt Pond and 
gather nasturtiums from the old t)oat 
which serves him as flower bed, or climb 
to War Creek Pass and glimpse the 
white crowns of Mount Baker, Glacier 
Peak and other giants of the Northwest. 
The illustrations—some in color—by 
Walter King Stone do the text full 
justice. 
Experiences With Pe-Tsai 
W ITHIN the last two years or so 
there has been considerable inter¬ 
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in the so-called Chinese cabbage, or Pe- 
Tsai. For the benefit of those who are 
thinking of trying this very palatable 
vegetable, the following fact from my 
own experience is submitted. 
All the seed catalogues and every ac¬ 
count of it that I have read state that it 
“will not stand frost.” I grew quite a 
number of heads here in North Carolina 
last fall, some of which remained in the 
open ground until early in December. 
We had a good deal of frost before 
this time—frost heavy enough to kill all 
tender vegetables, such as lima beans, 
orka, peppers and egg-plant—and sev¬ 
eral nights when there was a good skim 
of ice. The cabbage was so good and 
we enjoyed it so much, that none of it 
was left when the really cold weather 
came, so I do not know how many de¬ 
grees of freezing are needed to kill it. 
But I should say that it will stand ordi¬ 
nary frost, though not a heavy freeze. 
Isabel B. Busbee. 
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