2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 13

In a Gloucestershire Garden. By Henry N. Ellacombe. (E. Arnold.)—Canon

Ellacombe's "Gloucestershire Garden" is low (about 90 ft. above sea-level), and is sheltered by the Cotswolds on the east, and more distantly by the Mendips on the south. The climate, therefore, is more genial than we commonly associate with this country, largely consisting as it does of the Cotswold plateau and the elevations which rise from it. The Canon divides his book into two parts. In the first he lets us see how his garden grows month by month ; in the other he treats of its pro- ducts, not by the seasons in which they appear, but by the classes to which they belong. Both will be found highly interesting by all lovers of Nature. The author is an observer who knows how to make the best of what he sees.