Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

"Of all the books on gardening which have appeared in such abundance during the last few years, this is at once one of the most interesting, and most practical." -The Guardian

"A book worthy of the garden among the Surrey hills, which those who have seen it declare to be a paradise indeed. Many an English garden will take color from these pages." -Daily News

"Will make every one who reads her book instantly long to taste the delights of making unto themselves such a paradise of flowers and trees as she has created." -World

"This most soothing and delightful of volumes....The book is well written, direct and practical throughout, and contains besides, passages of such marked literary ability as reveal the hand of the artist beneath the weeding-glove." -Daily Chronicle

"It is so pleasantly natural and unconventional, and it has been so warmly welcomed as the unpretentious work an enthusiastic practical gardener, that it stands in little need of further recommendation....What Miss Jekyll does for us is to describe how she converted her own few acres of ground into a wild and beautiful landscape garden. Her lines were cast for her in pleasant places, and she proceeded to make those places still more pleasant. She had the land, the leisure, and the taste; and by adding the indispensable labor she seems to have made the wilderness blossom like a rose. Her book chronicles her ordinary garden-work for a year, taking it regularly month by month; and it supplements the chronicle with a dozen chapters on 'large and small gardens,' 'beginning and learning,' 'weeds and pests,' and so forth. It is not, of course, designed for the formal work of teaching horticulture, nor does it enter into all the details which a serious student of gardening would have to master. But the book is none the less a wise teacher of the art and method of gardening. It shows how to make the best of opportunities, great or small, how to beautify a corner and tidy up a neglected patch. And i these days, when more and more women are taking to horticulture as a vocation and means of livelihood, it is good to have a plain account of what has been done by a practical woman in the way of decorative gardening. From this point of view Miss Jekyll's 'Wood and Garden' is distinctly educational. There must be many a landowner and occupier of a fair-sized estate who would be glad to see a few wild acres converted as Miss Jekyll shows us how to do it, and who would commission a competent woman to set about the task." -The Education Outlook

"It would be hard to deal with the subject in a better way than she has done." -Field

"Among the host of distinguished amateurs, our author has surely been one of the fortunate. For nearly thirty years she has digged and planted, and, as the result of her labors, has reaped a rich reward. Such an experience as hers could not fail to be fruitful in suggestion; and her book, while full of the charm which intelligent and close communion with Nature gives, is eminently practical." -Westminster Gazette

"No owner of a garden should be without it....It is impossible to read Miss Jekyll's book without having one's gardening tastes both enlarged and refined....A delightful book." -Spectator

"It is by the help of such painstaking and reliable books as 'Wood and Garden' that we are spared the trouble of endless experiments and failures, and, by following the wise hints and practical advice that Miss Jekyll puts so simply and clearly before us, we shall find many of our difficulties solved and much assistance given." -Garden