Handy Book of the Flower Garden. By David Thompson. (William
Blackwood and Sons.)—We can heartily recommend this sensible and practical guide to all who, with small means and perhaps smaller experi- ence, take a delight in rearing flowers, and desire to see their gardens gay and well ordered all the year round. Those who do things on a large scale will find many valuable suggestions in its pages, but its chief merit is that it brings a wide experience and practised skill to bear upon the difficult art of managing a succession of plants with limited accom- modation, that it does not scorn to adapt itself even to the needs of those who have nothing more than a "spare room" to give to their winter stock. The directions are so plain, and the advice so judicious, the lists of plants so well selected, and the opinions on the arrangement of flower beds and the selection of colours so sound, that we are sure his readers will thankfully own how much they owe to Mr. Thompson's "practical directions."
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