GARDENING ROOKS.
Gardens in the Making. By Walter H. Godfrey. (B. T. Batsford. 5s. net.)—Mr. Godfrey is an architect, and his preferences are for regularity, straight lines, courts, hedges, divisions—in fact, an architect's garden. We hear nothing of "wild" gardening and little of the rock garden, except that its plants have led "almost every type of gardener to strew some part of his ground with formless &brie." That is a little prejudiced. But Mr. Godfrey writes well, with reasoned arguments for his preferences.—The Week-end Gardener. By F. Hadfield Farthing. (Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)— Thoroughly practical, and wide in scope : a book admirably suited to the needs of those who do all their own gardening and have only Saturday and Sunday to do it in.—Rock Gardening for Amateurs. By H. H. Thomas and S. Arnott. (Cassell. 6s. net.)—A book for beginners, illustrated. Lists of plants for ready reference are a good feature. The inevitable moraine is dealt with ; but why should a list. of plants for the moraine include plants which can be grown almost anyhow? A list of plants which can only be grown in a moraine would be interesting.—My Garden in Summer. By E. A. Bowles. (Jack. 55. net.)—A companion volume to My Garden in Spring, and attractive in spite of its slang. Mr. Bowles writes much on smells. The valuable part of the book is its store of personal experience. If some of the flowers—e.g., Lilium monadelphion—were like the coloured illustrations, who would grow them P—Wild Flowers as they Grow. By G. Clarke Nuttall and H. Essendigh Corke. Sixth and Seventh Series. (Cassell. 5s. net each.)—The illustrations, "direct from nature," are disappointing. The backgrounds are often unnaturally dark, and the yellows and greens fail. It seems hardly worth while to illustrate in colour shepherd's purse and stinging nettles.—The Genus Rosa. By Ellen Willmott, F.L.S. Drawings by Alfred Parsons, RA. Part XXV. (Murray. 21s. net each part.)—The concluding portion of a monumental work begun in 1910. It contains an index and full bibliography. Mr. Parsons's pen-and-ink drawings are exquisitely finished.— Saxifrages or Rockfoils. By W. Irving and R. A. Maltby. (Headley Bros. 2s. 6d. net.)—This new volume of the "Rock Gardener's Library" gives a good account of the Saxifrage family of plants, which should enable the garden-lover to choose the best varieties and to grow them successfully. There are numerous photographs of the different varieties.
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