BOOKS
A practical treatise on flower culture for young
people told in the form of a story
MARY’S GARDEN
AND HOW IT GREW
It is evidently the design of the author of this charming book to lure little girls into delving in the brown earth, raising flowers, healthy appetites, and rosy cheeks.
This volume will prove invaluable to older people also, because Miss Duncan takes nothing for granted in the matter of horticultural 
knowledge and gives all those little details which amateur gardeners so sadly need.
“Mary’s” garden experience starts with January, and runs through the whole twelve months.
For winter there is window-gardening; in spring there is seed-planting. Later, Mary is initiated into the mysteries of setting out a hedge, pruning, budding, rose-growing, the transplanting of perennials, the setting out of bulbs, and many other interesting and delightful phases of flowerdom, Many drawings illuminate the text.
Mr. S. B. Parsons, the veteran horticulturist, writes to the author: “The book is admirable,
and I think it could hardly be better. The personality you have thrown over
it all is a very great charm. All the children will want to know lite Mary,
and it will sell like hot-cakes at Christmas.”
“The idea upon which it is based is a very happy one, and the book
is also technically sound.”—Dick J. Crosby (in charge of Chil-
drens Garden Work, Agricultural Deparment, U. S. A.).
“It should be hung on every Christmas tree this
year.”—Charles N. Chadwick (Brooklyn Board
of Education).
12mo, 261 pages. $1.25.
THE CENTURY CO., UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK
