Evening star., 1935-03-24

where COW was camping and chill
dren were being bathed. 1t was COM
forting TO remember that to the peon
sickness comes from God as punish
! ment or from the devil as deviltry, and
can be cured at shrine or by charms.
They became convinced after all their
rambles that the Mexicans. though
they have little, and want little, even
in deep poverty know a contentment
and satisfaction in small things which
we in the United States have never
achieved. So they came away with a
lasting impression of bright Mexico"
Studio Garden Annual, 1885. Ed
tied by F. A. Mercer. New York:
The Studio Publications.
zach year the Studio Garden An
nual seems more rich in its beau
tiful plates and happy descriptions
Of artistic gardens, large and small,
and of unique bits from many other
gardens 1t is of inestimable help to
those who are planning new gardens
or the never-ending Improvements in
old ones. The editor has tried to
illustrate beautiful gardens from as
many localities as possible and of
great variety in design, planting and
contour of land He has also taken
into account climatic conditions and
the rotation of flowers with the sea-
sons. for many small gardens suffer
because all the effort is concentrated
on one particular season, with the re-
suit that for a short period the gar
den is a profusion Of loveliness. but
for the remainder of the year has
little or nothing to show"
The volume includes, in addition to
text accompanying the nearly 200
plates. articles by experts on selected
subjects. D. B. Crane, chairman of
the National Chrysanthemum Soci-
ety's Floral Committee. writes on
chrysanthemums: Richard Sudell. fel-
low of the Institute of Landscape
Architects. on the herbaceous border;
Clarence Fowler, fellow Of the Amer
lean Society of Landscape Architects,
on the decorative value of ferns, and
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde on the
Spring garden. Some of the most at
tractive illustrations are of a natural
lied brook in an Englewood, NJ j.,
garden; a rock terrace garden at
Manchester = by the Sea- Mass;
Spring garden with formal pool at
Scarsdale. N. Y: town garden in
Hampstead, London, and the Murillo
Gardens at Seville, with their semi
tropical foliage and brilliantly
chequered faience benches. For orig
inality and skill in making the best
Of poor opportunities. the most sue
cessful garden illustrated seems to be
one on Broadway and One Hundred
and Fourteenth street, New York City.
restful, shrub-incloSed nook within
a few steps of traffic and tumult.
WHAT HAPPENS IN MY GARDEN.
BY Louise Beebe Wilder. illus
trated. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co.
WITH knowledge which is the result
of study, observation and unlim-
tied patience in experiment and with
an informal and infectiously enthu-
siastic style. Mrs. Wilder writes of her
own garden and what happens there
during the changing seasons. She has
previously written THE Fragrant
Path" and Adventures in a Suburban
Garden" Rock gardens are her pri-
mary delight and her first chapter is
"A Defense of Rock Gardens" de-
tense which hardly seems needed in
view of the popularity of rock gar
dens, which are appearing everywhere.
even in the smallest plots. About
half of the book is devoted to the
plants suited for rock gardens, their
harmonious selection, planting and
care. Creeping plants, daisies, the
thymes, 'the glamorous silenes'' and,
among the shrubs, the spireas. the
little willows, the little broomS, heath
ers, rock garden roses and small
rhododendrons are her favorites. Mrs.
Wilder has chosen tempting titles for
her chapters which can hardly fail
to suggest to readers possibilities for
their own gardens: Beauty in
Onions" True Blues Among the
Early Blossoms "The Meadowrues
for Feathery Grace" "The Pomp of
the Mulleins," Likely Thistles" and |
"Sages of Sorts" are some of them.
OLD ROSES. By Mrs. Frederick Love
Keays. With Sc Illustrations. New |
York: The Macmillan Co.
TO MANY gardeners roses seem the
finest possible product of the gar
den, the aristocrats among flowers.
Mrs. Keays has during the past five
years collected and grown at Greek |
Side, her farm in Southern Maryland,
about $50 varieties Of roses, dating
from 1896 to 1880. In her book she |
tells of her own collecting, but also |
gives something Of the history of roses |
during the Colonial rose period, the |
China rose period, the rose world of |
1910" and the great rose period from |
1910 to 1880. She also has chapters |
on collecting and recording, libraries
and rose books, and uses for old roses. |
She has the scholars interest in her |
hobby as well as that of the practical
gardener. There have been fashions
in roses and the rose collector is as
anxious to have roses of different
periods as the collector of furniture
or china is to pick up pieces attributa-
BILE to certain dates and craftsmen.
The roses of our Colonial pioneers
were the June blooming types, ever
blooming roses were introduced from
China, and hybrid perpetual roses.
whose pedigrees it is often difficult to
trace, have been developed chiefly