2 JUNE 1906, Page 23

Every Han's Book of Garden Difficulties. By W. F. Howled.

(Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net.)—This is likely to be a useful volume. A gardener has many enemies, and it will take all his time and all his ingenuity to cope with them. Here Mr. Bowles will help him. His book is, of course, intended in the first place for gardeners on the small scale. If one has to clear an acre or so of conch-grass, the admirable plan of putting every bit into a basket and carrying it off will hardly be practicable. Still, the amateur, or, for the matter of that, the professional, grower of flowers and fruit will find many profitable suggestions as to counteracting or minimising the hostile influences of drought, frost, insects, blight, and other malign powers.