The Small Rock Garden. By E. H. Jenkins. (Country Life
Library. 2s. 6d. net.)—A valuable feature is the lists of plants suitable for the different kinds of gardens described—wall, rock, bog, moraine, and so on. But should not the list for the moraine, which is in truth a rather freakish addition to the rock garden, exclude plants which can be grown with ease elsewhere P A " black list " of undesirables makes a useful page. —My Garden in Spring. By E. A. Bowles. (T. C. and E. C. Jack. 5s. net.)—Mr. Bowles writes slangily: daffodils are " daffs," laurustinus smells of "dirty dog-kennel," and we are invited, when he talks of crocuses, to inspect "gems in the flesh." But he has a wide personal experience, and speaks of what he knows—Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden. By Gertrude Jekyll. (Country Life. 12s. 6d. net.)—It is interesting to notice that Miss Jekyll, in the third edition of this charming book, again finds it necessary to complain that seedsm en miscall the colours of flowers; "deep blue" really means purple, and so on, to the annoyance and confusion of buyers. A hint of this kind from a gardener with Miss Jekyll's following might, we should have thought, have been accepted.
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