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old-fashioned gardens. Decidedly showing the Chauve- 
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and rarity, as delights and ornaments 
for a garden of pleasure, wherein noth¬ 
ing should be wanting that art, care 
and cost might produce and preserve. 
“The broad-leafed Myrtle riseth up to 
the height of four or five feet at the 
most with us, full of branches and 
leaves, growing like a small bush, the 
stem and elder branches whereof are 
covered with a dark and colored bark, 
but the young with a green and some 
with the red, especially upon the first 
shooting forth, whereon are set many 
fresh green leaves very sweet in smell 
and very pleasant to behold, so near 
resembling the leaves of the Pomegran¬ 
ate tree that groweth with us that they 
soon deceive many who. are not expert 
therein, being somewhat broad and long 
and pointed at the ends, abiding always 
green. At the joints of the branches, 
where the leaves stand, come forth the 
flowers upon small footstalks, every 
one by itself, consisting of five small 
white leaves, with white threads in the 
middle smelling also very sweet.” It 
is interesting to compare Parkinson’s 
with a present-day horticultural de¬ 
scription of the same plant: “A hand¬ 
some evergreen, 3-10 ft. or more 
(sometimes a small tree) high, both fls. 
and lvs. strongly scented; lvs. small in 
the variety usually cult., ovate or lan¬ 
ceolate, entire, smooth and shining, 
acute, coriaceous: peduncles solitary, 
1-fld., length of lvs. or shorter, bear¬ 
ing 2 linear bractlets below the white 
and reddish pretty fls.: berry blue 
black” and so on. 
Of the great Elizabethans, Shake¬ 
speare, particularly, and Bacon and Sid¬ 
ney, as well as many of the minor 
writers, herbalists, and horticulturists 
of the time, are quoted in passages of 
varying degrees of beauty, on the sub¬ 
jects of flowers and gardens. All the 
flowers of Shakespeare are described in 
quotations from him and from his con¬ 
temporaries, as well as in Miss Single¬ 
ton’s own asides. 
The book is divided into three sec¬ 
tions. The first deals with the evolu¬ 
tion of the two types of gardens 
familiar to Shakespeare—the formal and 
grand and florid affairs of the plutoc¬ 
racy, and the simple, enclosed cottage 
gardens of the countryside; the second 
part is concerned with the plants and 
flowers mentioned by the poet, while 
the third is given over to practical 
suggestions for the development of a 
garden which might have the flowers 
of Shakespeare’s plays and the style of 
his period. 
Whenever it has been possible to do 
so, in any of the three sections, Miss 
Singleton has let the writers and the 
garden authorities do the talking. 
A N Alpine a. b. c. by A. Methuen, 
E. P. Dutton & Co. 
The beginner in rock gardening is 
faced by three general problems—where 
to place the rockery, how to make it 
and how and what plants to use. In 
this little handbook these questions are 
answered. The instructions on making 
and planting an alpine garden are un¬ 
mistakably clear and the list of avail¬ 
able plant material generous in its sug¬ 
gestions. Although made for English 
gardens, the list of plants can, with a 
few exceptions, be applied to American 
gardens. Just one thing seems to be 
missing in this little book, however,— 
instructions on the planting o-f alpine 
seeds. Many of them are not so tract¬ 
able as the average border perennial; a 
note on alpine seeds and seedlings 
would have made this little handbook 
quite complete. 
R OUGHING it Smoothly by Elon 
Jessup, G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 
Mr. Jessup has added another 
volume to his series of outdoor books 
that, having read, makes one wonder 
why people bother with houses at all. 
His “Motor Camping Book” would 
have made a gasoline gypsy out of the 
laziest stay-at-home. In this latest 
volume he attempts to simplify camp 
life. His title happily betrays the con¬ 
tents. He considers everything that 
can possibly happen to the camper 
short of sitting on the pie (or is that the 
special prerogative of the picnicker?). 
Thus, you learn about getting lost in 
the wood and how to find your way 
home; how not to drown; how to tell 
the coming weather; how to sleep out 
in comfort and to make camp fires; 
how to paddle a canoe and how to 
avoid poisonous plants; how to pitch 
a camp and how to initiate the young¬ 
sters into the joys of the woodsman's 
life. These are only a few of his sub¬ 
jects. .At first one would say that here 
is a book for boys, whereas it proves 
to be a book for grownups. There is 
no moonshining in its instructions al¬ 
though they are pleasantly written. 
You are aware that the simon-pure 
facts of camp life are being presented. 
And campers are usually simon-pure 
people. This book ought to increase 
their ranks. 
T HE Next-to-Nothing House 
by Alice Van Leer Carrick, At¬ 
lantic Monthly Press. 
You can always tell the differ¬ 
ence between the false and the 
true collector by this fact—false col¬ 
lectors, those who collect for “effect” 
invariably boast of their expensive ac¬ 
quisitions; true collectors—those who 
collect for the love of the beautiful, the 
curious, the historic, invariably boast 
of how little their prizes cost them. This 
is a book by a true collector. It tells 
the story of the furnishing of her house, 
and, considering how some houses are 
furnished, it cost, as the title says, next 
to nothing. 
Mrs. Carrick’s house is the Daniel 
Webster cottage at Hanover, N. H., the 
very place he roomed in when he went 
to Dartmouth. It was fitting, then, that 
she should furnish it in early American 
pieces and should reproduce, in this 
luxurious and complicated age, some of 
that stern simplicity characteristic of an 
earlier day. Starting with the front 
door she conducts the reader through 
the house, even to the kitchen and the 
bathroom. Not a piece of furniture but 
represents some fine adventure, some 
glimpse of romance—and some Yankee 
canniness for prices. It is a pleasant 
progress,—an insidious progress. One 
would rush out and do her house also 
for nothing. But that is where the 
trick of this book lies. The knowledge 
of how to find, to value, to appreciate 
good antiques is not to be acquired for 
nothing. It all seems so easy in the tell¬ 
ing, but behind it lies the great wealth 
of knowledge and appreciation which is 
Mrs. Carrick’s. 
This slim volume we add to that list 
of prized books we recommend to those 
who want to find adventure in making 
their homes. We recommend it to 
brides, to city people surfeited with 
dizzy and ineffectual living, to both 
beginning and hardened collectors and 
to all those to whom a home means 
more than merely a place to crawl into 
at night. 
