GARDENING BOOKS.
The stream of books on gardening does not cease. In Rock and Water Gardens : their Making and Planting (Country Life, 6e. net) Mr. E. T. Cook edits a series of articles contributed to the Garden by the late Mr. F. W. Meyer. These are illustrated by photo- graphs taken by Mr. Meyer himself. The " Water Garden" is a peculiarly attractive addition to a house where it can be made. Those who live near the Thames can have water supplied at a quite moderate rate ; doubtless the same facilities exist elsewhere. Mr. Dallinson, of Kew, adds a chapter on " The Heath Garden." The book may be warmly recommended.—In the series of " Present-Day Gardening," under the editorship of Mr. R. Hooper Pearson, of the Gardener's Chronicle (T. C. and E. C. Jack, ls. 6d. net per vol.), we have a volume on Sweet Peas, by Horace J. Wright, and another on Pansies, Violas, and Violets, by William Cuthbertson and R. Hooper Pearson. The series is to include all the principal varieties, each being treated by an expert. One of the forthcoming volumes is to deal, we see, with vegetables.—Finally, we may mention A White-Paper Garden, by Sara Andrew Shafer (Methuen and Co., 7s. 63. net). This book is arranged under the headings of the various months, and it is written, says the author, for "the gardenless." Still, we think that happier people, who have their plot of ground, small or large, may learn something from it. Mrs. Shafer draws from a well-stored memory, and her sentiment is based upon knowledge, besides being expressed with no little eloquence.
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