Many useful and attractive books on gardening have of late years appeared - from the great standard authority, Mr W. Robinson's "English Flower Garden" now in its Seventh Edition, to Miss Jekyll's charming "Home and Garden." The bookstalls, too, are well furnished every week with capital journals of horticulture. But the books on the one hand are, as a rule, too large and too advanced for amateurs and gardeners on a small scale - for the class I mean of fairly intelligent young men who are placed in sole charge of small gardens, who have little natural aptitude for gardening and no training, and who look in vain to their employers for teaching or suggestions of any kind; and on the other hand, the gardening newspapers are, I find, too fragmentary to be of real help to them.