8 JUNE 1901, Page 24

Gardening for Beginners. By E. T. Cook. (G. Newnes and

Country Life Office. 10s. (d.)—Here is yet another book about gardening, full of information about both the useful and the ornamental, and as far as we have been able to test it—neces- sarily on but few points—eminently practical. The beginner, by the way, will have gone a long way before he has assimilated the contents of this stout volume of nearly five hundred pages; but then a/ia aliis curet, and the wider the choice that is offered by a volume of this kind the better.