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Garden Design. (By Madeline Agar. Sidgwick and Jackson. 'Ts. Gd.

net.)—This book does not toll us how to work a garden. "I have purposely omitted everything of a purely horticultural nature," says the author in her Preface, "but how to shape and plan it." Details of all kinds, the method of measurement, the process of levelling, &c., besides general schemes of laying out, are given.