Liz Robinson s Snippets Audrey Le Livre Saxe Coburg and Gotha, an unexpected glance at a Ducal Seat Tom Garnett botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Australia Catherine Umphrey ÍcontroversialÍ gardening with Walter and Marjorie Fish Sheila Cosgrove Japanese tea gardens A.T.Johnson on soft wooded shrubs Victoria Schilling in search of record trees Patricia Cleveland Peck le Jardin Shakespeare, a public garden in Paris Marie Ingram Theodore Payne _ part three of a major survey of an English horticulturist in California Philippa Rakusen Harlow Carr and Ling Beeches in winter Jane Sterndale Bennett her Hampshire garden on chalk in winter Derek Toms some thoughts on the end of horticulture Timothy Ribbesford An Essayist in the Garden Peter Parker Ponders... Book reviews by John Akeroyd, Martyn Chalk, Liz Robinson and Katherine Swift.