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Flowers and Gardens. By Forbes Watson. Edited by Canon Ellacanbe..

(John Lane. 6s. net.)—This volume is a reprint of a book which first appeared about thirty years ago, shortly after the early death of its author. It is not of the ordinary type of gardening books, for it does not aim at giving technical instruc- tion, though, indeed, some practical hints may be got from it- Its object is rather to lift the mind of the lover of flowers on to a higher plane, to make him see the rationale of the beauty which be admires. Written during the author's last illness, when his mind was chastened and spiritualised by his surroundings, it will be found full of suggestive teaching.