Notes and Reviews 
AT BARNCLUITH 
From “ Formal Gardens i 
Perhaps the most interesting subject 
treated in it is the gardens at Hampton 
Court. These have not only beauty and 
the charm of historic interest, but are very 
admirably presented by means of plans at 
small and large scale and many photo¬ 
graphs. Most notable among the Scottish 
gardens, which are not generally so well 
known as the English, are those at 
Balcaskie and Barncluith, both admirable 
examples of the picturesque but formal 
hillside garden. Two finer specimens of 
the old-time modest garden it would be hard 
to find than these. 
The introduction to the book is a brief 
but comprehensive essay on the history of 
N his “Plant and Floral Studies ” 1 Mr. 
Townsend provides the designer with por¬ 
traits of plants firmly drawn in line. The 
book is, in fact, a sketch-book of plant form ; 
but unlike many works of similar purpose, no 
attempt is made to furnish the student with 
conventionalizations of the forms shown. 
Each plate is accompanied by a brief descrip¬ 
tion of the plant, which gives the student 
some idea of its time of flowering, the colors 
of its parts and the details of its flower. Un¬ 
fortunately these descriptions are not in all 
cases as accurately written as one might desire, 
e. g. when the elongated pod of the Sea 
Poppy is described as bearing upon its tip a 
single red anther l The drawings are 
1 Plant and Floral Studies for Designers, Art Students and Craftsmen, 
by W. G. Paulson Townsend. 139 pp., inline drawings; 1" x 
io // . John Lane, London and New York, 1901. Price $2.00 
AT BRAMSH 1 LL 
England and Scotland'' 
gardening in England, apparently largely 
derived from Blomfield’s “ The Formal 
Garden in England” and Miss Amherst’s 
“ History of Gardening.” The subject has 
been pretty well thrashed out and no new 
flood of light upon it is to be expected at 
this late date, yet it would seem that one 
who had devoted so much time to collecting 
material as has Mr. Triggs, would have come 
across some facts that might have added a 
little to our knowledge. On the other 
hand the few words he has to say about the 
History of Gardening in Scotland, present 
the subject in a light that makes doubly 
interesting the examples that he shows by 
photographs and drawings. 
executed with great clearness and spirit; 
they are of a kind that should stimulate any 
earnest student to go to nature in the hope 
of making their like; and should they do 
this, they will be of far more use than if they 
should serve merely as a storehouse of plant 
form, to be drawn upon by the designer. 
BOOKS RECEIVED 
Garden-Craft Old and New, by John D. Sedding. 215 pp. 8vo. 
Illustrated. John Lane, London and New York, 1902. Price, $2.50. 
Carnations and Picotees, by H. W. Weguelin. 125 pp. i2mo. 
Illustrated. Imported by M. F. Mansfield & Co., New York. 
Price, $1. 50. 
In My Vicarage Garden and Elsewhere, by Canon Ellacombe. 
222 pp. i2mo. John Lane, London and New York, 1902. 
Price, $1.50. 
Stray Leaves from a Border Garden, by Mary Pamela Milne Home. 
340 pp. i2mo. Illustrated. John Lane, London and New York, 
1901. Price, $1.50. 
The Book of Vegetables (Vol. VII. Handbooks of Practical 
Gardening), by George Wythes. 106 pp. i2mo. Illustrated. 
John Lane, London and New York, 1902. Price, $1.00. 
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