(1) Alpine Flowers and Gardens, Painted and Described (2) Summer Flowers of the High Alps

Abstract

(1) A SERIES of twenty well-executed colour prints appears to be the raison d'être of this volume on alpine flowers and gardens. The author, who is also the artist, knows his Alps and alpine flowers well, and has contrived to write an interesting and instructive account of the alpine flora in its various aspects. He is without doubt an enthusiast on the subject, and something of a poet as well, but it is unfortunate that poetical descriptions and Latin names of plants are but ill-assorted companions, and the frequency of the necessary names detracts considerably from the purely aesthetic pleasure of perusing the volume.

(1) Alpine Flowers and Gardens, Painted and Described.

By G. Flemwell. Pp. xiv + 167. (London: A. and C. Black, 1910.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) Summer Flowers of the High Alps.

By Somerville Hastings. Pp. xxvi + 85. With an index and 39 colour plates from direct colour photographs by the author. (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., n.d.) Price 7s. 6d. net.