A Year's Work in Garden and Greenhouse. By George Glenny.
(Chatto and Windus.)—The flower garden, the fruit garden, and the frame garden are discussed in the first three chapters of this useful garden manual. Then we find concise accounts of garden tools, garden operations, garden recipes, and lists of desirable flowers, plants, fruits, and seeds. Mr. Glenny writes with emphasis, brevity, and clearness. His instructions insist, for the most part, on those points in gardening practice which have been sanctioned by long and successful experience. The common errors which amateur gardeners make are here noted and corrected, and each month's work is duly set out in order; but we ought not to refrain from observing that some of themost useful recent introductions, both in the way of garden machines and of remedies for plant diseases and the attacks of insects, are not mentioned in the volume. The absence of an index is another defect.
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