New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-14

Vegetables for Home Use. BY l. i.
BAILEY. Illustrated. l2llo, pp aS- me
Macmillan Company.
INDOOR GARDENING. BY Eben L; Rex
FORD. illustrated. Iemo. PIP SlA Inc j.
3. Lappincott Company.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN Eng
LAND. BY the Hon. Mrs; Ev y's. C en-
fthe Hon. Alicia AInherstl, Citizen ana
fSerSener OF London. Third and en-
larged edition Illustrated svo. pp- %SS
+. p. pEttoD & CO.
Can z manual Of gardening pe OK ab-
sorhing interest TO those who have no
gardens? Let us record The fact that
Professor Bailey's new book is OF that
kind. His own interest in the subject
he communicates to the reaoer-waeih
he wisely assures that reading book
ana following it literally viii not make
him 2 gardener. and that he must al
x-svs assume his own risks. AS for the
point OF view, he notes that wherever
there is sunlight plants may be made to
grow and that one plant in q tin can
NAV be a more helpful and inspiring
garden 70 some mind than a whole acre
IF lawn and flowers may be 10 another.
The true lover OF q garden viii keen!y
sppreciate the statement that gardens
are moo01sa, particularly with the
novice and also the warning against
rigid and arbitrary notions and against
PROJECTS ZOO ambitious. Love the
things nearest at hand and love in
.enseiv.r says our author. If / we're
20 write q motto over the gate OF
harden 4 should choose the remark that
socrates Is said 10 have made as he saw
the iuxuries in the market: How nUch
there is n the world that / 90 not
vzY,+r- Most excellent common sense
aninates the practical advice given ia
tais volume, and we need seldom quarrei
on questions Of taste We would prefer
60 see carpet bedding condemned except
tr. narrow strips Of ground surrounding
,,etropolitan ulansions-Hhere, 10 be
sure. this seems really in place. But as
long as the owners of country estates
ar villa ve acres or town parks hike car
pet beddings. SO long. ne DOUBT IL Is a
we'll 10 give instruction in the making OF
them. We arc glad 10 see, however, that
Professor Bailey dilates with no emo
tien whatever on this subject. reservins
his most vigorous phrases for such mat
tiers as this:
The greatet defect with our ho~er
--nz-5r- * the st;nglness Of IL We grow
oar -ioVers as ii they were inc enc mo- -
-sr,+ies 10 lie coddleo in q not peo %
49, !, l,e,l-iar. ard then 20 be exhibited
q single specimens in some niue plIlESiito -
and ridiculous hole cut ,,,i N m hat some
Gardener has laboriousiy heaped on a avn
[a+rr. on the other hand, grows lI HILL
of her flowers IN me mos o., srrfi,I without
offence She grows her flowers ia e eat iie az,
and -
Te"eI . ~ az What | want 10 say
Is thai we should grow fo@ers 1TeelE %Li5d
NE make = flower galosIl. The effort
l,sz-e enough Of them to MAKE the ei'o''
worth while.
W. seree with the author III his an
zis.ence that the easiest way 10 spoil d
good lawn is 70 put flower bed IN IL
and the most effective way to sho" OH
eoUers 10 the least advantage i 10
,,lzpt them in a bed in the greens"afu-
Flowers need q background, ne aodS'
We do not hang our pictures On lellce
nosts If flowers ale to be grown Oh d
lawn. let them be of the hardy kIhu'
which can be natUralized IN the 500 0iiu
which grow freely in the tan, phiho"h
grass: or else percnnials of such nature
,ha+ they make attractive clumps pE
themselves Lawns should be free and
generous. but the more they are cut up
sr6 worried with trivial effects the
e,--silar md Ineaner they look" These
he golden words. There is nothing ABOUT
mo arrangement and preparation OF
home grounds, the making of landscape
effects the handling OF the land, the
growing of flowers. fruit and vegetables
that the author leaves unnolced. anu
.he Illustrations are judiciously selected
He who would fain make garden and
would surround his house with beauty IN
,hesa Northeastern States could not fnd
2 better manual
Mr. Fben Rexford has long been
known as the writer Of many pleasant
charters on the growing OF house plants
IN Indoor Gardening he teaches TINS
lora in most praiseWoTthy fashion
Sore q his remedies for the evils that
as;ct the leafy nurseIings may perhaps
seem unduly heroic-as, for instance
the plunging OF a plant attacked py
red spider" into a tub of water heated
to 100 degrees Fahrenheit 1t Kills ON
the spider and doesn't hurt. he declares
even comparatively tender plants he
-eus us that in plant growing there are
extremes. one being neglect and the
other TOO much business" and as
many plants dying OF one as OF the
other. Give them the right conditions
and then let them take care of them
selves to great degree" And again
he is unconventional in his assertion
that II matters much less what kind OF
vessel a plant is grown in than most
,,ersons imagine L have seen, he
saws. "as fine plants growing in an old
wooden box as l ever saw in anything.
Detals As to the most satisfactory
r.lants for indoor gardening fill many Of
tbese pages, and host of valuable sug-
.,orsioT7s for the care thereof accompany
them Many interesting illustrations aid
these instructions
Mrs CeciIs charming hook on the his
.cr,- of gardening in England was first
nIl,lished fifteen years ago. Ii has since
tbe,l been the most valuable work 81
reference on its subject. This third and
enlarged edition. with illustrations. Is
heartily welcome Some of the add
mons consist of notes drawn from his
tor3caI manuscripts. and there is much