Shelton, Louise. Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of instruction and information for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
A manual arranged as a calendar “giving detailed instructions as to what to plant in each month of the open season, with many useful hints of a miscellaneous character.” (R. of Rs.)
“The directions are clearly worded, well grouped, and reasonable. For a small garden and a young gardener, the book will render the real service for which it was written.” Sara Andrew Shafer.
+ + – Dial. 40: 360. Je. 1, ’06. 70w.
“A very practical manual for the amateur.”
+ Ind. 60: 1379. Je. 7, ’06. 40w.
“The book supplements, but cannot replace, the formal garden handbooks.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 846. Je. 7, ’06. 160w.
“She does not realize that the brevity of her descriptions may be confusing and not carry to the novice the very idea that she is seeking to implant.”