J. WILKINSON ELLIOTT, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
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Gardening Books and Papers. 
I am sorry to say it, 
but there is at present 
no gardening paper 
published in America 
worthy of considera¬ 
tion. For a few years 
we had an excellent 
paper, well suited to 
the needs of our coun¬ 
try. Its editor was 
able and enthusiastic, 
and had the business 
management been as 
intelligent as the edi¬ 
torial the success of the 
paper would have been 
unqualified, but the ed¬ 
itor was allowed to re¬ 
sign and the paper 
dropped into the un¬ 
interesting rut occu¬ 
pied by its contempo¬ 
raries. This is pre¬ 
liminary to recom¬ 
mending the English 
paper, The Garden , 
which is beyond ques¬ 
tion the best gardening- 
paper published in the 
world. It isa weekly, 
well edited, well print¬ 
ed and freely illustra¬ 
ted with pictures made 
in the best gardens in 
England. It is re¬ 
ally a cheap paper at 
$4.50 per year. I will 
be glad to forward sub¬ 
scriptions to the Lon¬ 
don office for my cus¬ 
tomers. 
Another English pa¬ 
per that gives me a 
great deal of pleasure 
is Country Life. It is a 
32-page weekly exclu¬ 
sive of advertisements, 
and is the best printed 
and illustrated paper I 
have ever seen. 11 
treats of all pursuits 
and sports of country 
life, but is especially 
interesting on account 
of its illustrated de¬ 
scriptions of English 
country places, one of 
which it publishes each 
week, showing house, 
gardens and lawns. 
Myattentionwas 
called to this paper re- 
English Iris.— See Page 22. eently by one of my 
clients, and I was so well pleased with it that I bought all the back numbers as well as subscribing. The price for American 
subscription is $10.00 per year. I will forward subscriptions if desired. 
The best book on gardening ever published and worth more than all other books on gardening and landscape gardening is 
Win, Robinson’s The English Flower Garden , now in its eighth edition. Whatever success I have made as a landscape gardener 
I owe to the inspiration of this book. It not only teaches good gardening, but, what is quite as important, condemns bad, giv¬ 
ing reasons that are convincing for both. This book has done more to improve the gardening in England than all other influ¬ 
ences combined, and I wish it were in my power to secure its reading by all thoughtful intelligent people in this country. The 
book is very comprehensive, treating of the arrangement of various styles of gardens, and contains descriptions of almost every 
tree, shrub, plant and bulb of value used in ornamental gardening. It is profusely illustrated by the best English artists with 
pictures made in hundreds of English gardens. The price is $6.00. It may be ordered from any bookseller, or I will forward it 
on receipt of the price. ' '* " 
A delightful book recently published in England is Wood and Garden, by Miss Jekyl. The book hasn’t much to say about 
culture, but is full of good suggestions for arrangement, and the illustrations, from photographs made by the author, are a de¬ 
light, and should do much toward the banishment of ugly and inartistic gardens. It is charmingly written by an enthusiastic 
amateur, and should be read and owned by every lover of a good garden as well as by those who know nothing of the pleasures 
of a garden. The book can be obtained through any bookseller. 
