25 DECEMBER 1915, Page 25

Coming after fellow-volumes dealing with the garden in spring and

in summer, Mr. E. A. Bowles's My Garden in Autumn and Winter completes his trilogy, and is the best of the three (T. C. and E. C. Jack, 5s. net). Mr. Bowles is a thorough gardener who knows the serener pleasures of cooling rains, the fragrance of fallen leaves, the ordering of bulbs and planning of colour for the spring. He writes of his likes and dislikes, and not every one will agree ; but most of his plants are intimate friends, and he knows how to make visitors to his garden welcome. His similes are original ; his Taxodium distichurn in autumn glows from yellow to orange, " ending off with a wonderful shade of deep red brown, the like of which I can only recall in a fox or a Hereford ox."