New-York tribune., 1907-12-21
IN Il GARDEN.
Glimps of Summer in Wintry
Time.

L L
G. kingsley. Illustrated 12no. PIP. $50. The
Macmillan Company.
The daughter Of Charles Kingsley has written
in this book one which will stir to sympathy the
hearts of all true garden lovers. 1t is a joyous
book, full OF the magic Of
OF splendoT IN the grass, Of glory in the flower.
The reader as he turns the last page must al
most feel Convinced that there's nothing half
SO sweet in life as the making of a garden. En-
thusiasm like that of our author is contagious.
and believe that many border will owe
its beauty next summer to her inspiring de-
light and her practical suggestions. For she
knows what flowers need and like and has
plenty OF her experiments to record. Not
all her successes can American gardeners emu
late, for the English climate in many cases
works spells that are beyond our reach; bur
much that she has done is worth a struggle for
here.
Refreshing is her protest against bringing
fashion" into the garden-that is to say, dis
carding a beautiful thing because another
beautiful one rises into new prominence. Why
uproot treasure and cast IL on the trash-heap
to die because q novelty becomes talked
about? why turn our backs on the old and
faithful friend because, forsootb, the new ac-
Quaintance pleases us?''i II is the professional
gardener who. without the passion for his work
that The devoted amateur feels is continually
striving to bring his parterres and borders into
line with the craze OF the moment. We hear
on all sides, from morning till night" says Miss
Kingsley, mot that Hybrid Teas are beautiful,
but that they are all the fashion Not that
Sweet Peas are enchanting, but that they are
the fashionable flower to which everything else
must be sacrificed; and that Geraniums are
completely superseded by the fashionable Be-
gonia would drown one of my homely
tabby cats because 1t was not a pale lavender
Persian as to destroy my hybrid Perpetuals
because they were not Tea Roses" She notes
that in no branch OF horticulture have such
amazing strides been made during the last few
years as in the variety. beauty and hardness
Of the Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses. What a
roses garden may be we discover in the chapters
dealing with the result of her own efforts, and
in that describing the garden of her friend, the
Expert-a shrine of glorious loveliness though
it measures barely half an acre If we were to
suggest, by the way, single word for the
edifcation of the amateur rose-grower 1t would
be the word Thorough There to be
half-measures no periods of Incidence, mur-
murings Of 'just good" or this win do
Miss Kingsley offers us beguiling charter
on the arrangement of cut flowers-one which
viii be specially interesting TO American wom-
en- who are learning much in this direction every
year. A somewhat startling experiment Is
here chronicled'
fine color schenles made by an artist in words
well other things was daring combination
prise and delight to visitor that when her
hostess appeared eds she could only say neass ss
of the rosy-scariet Larkspur. pierced through and
enss No wonder the visitor with nice sense Of
art was found almost speechess before it The The
pink if boldly mixed together are 1ney eftectlve.
But like Alexander. they must reign alone Tor Ior
their colors crush any more ciea ana oeica'e 'Ne'
in room
There can be no truly successful garden with
out birds and Miss Kingsley is merry and wise
in her talk about her winged friends. One cpl
sode was of kind to surprise those who re-
gard birds and cats as irreconcilabe
The covey of partridges that are always to be
found in one of my meadows often make their way
And one hard winter the charming creatures came
up the snow close to the house IN seareh ear bd %
never before seen such large birds to such an ex-
hs sBs Fsnes wnad~s sr 9sd o M for n9s
room while the partridges remained perfectly
eain , oas he are Verv entertaining Puschkn and
GogoI when they were kittens usea & 10 pe EoG
EeTTosals oTtsa on ecappagus EaosSasS would y
silently the on saf tbe ps sha %e the
fhese broad wings that seem to be made OF COP
webs rather than the 9I eass of the wretc
Siide1sd Kittens, till they ran anywhere Tor sa,eas @
@iios' 80 Su Strange elusive foes Swallows, 700,
rom i 90 torment cats; and have even seen them
din and tweak cats ear IL IL was ""if-iS De-o"
their nest.
.,., botIv discussed bird. the sparrow
--,;-r snarrow-this gardener has no COM
.sior .e she calls him dirty. inpudent' vui-
,,sr tbieving ratfian of the garden
= MIN syicts my house martins ana dr!nes
II IS f, ne "t the nests above my siow year after after
year. jus. 70 pieces who nips the beads on i ,hs
every cto. vino cats the peas, W1o-Dut VIII
Polyanth nthIs is the list of his inqiities he car
stop !of ioas snanners and customs WITH MN "nef-