In the series of "Handbooks of Practical Gardening" (John Lane,
2s. 6d. net) we have The Book of the Cottage Garden, by Charles Thonger. Mr. Monger hastens to explain that the "cottage" is not the dwelling of the "cottager" proper, but the "cottage in the country," which may mean in different mouths very different things. What the author has in view is the open-air garden, which may be big or little according to circumstances, but is devoted to hardy plants. We must own to a liking for a little glass ; it need not be "ugly," nor need its contents be "stiffly staged," and it gives us something actually in hand for a winter which, as we have just been feeling, may last long after its proper ending. But this is a useful book. It deals with fruits and vegetables as well as flowers, and. it is planned on lines which make it available for the average householder.
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