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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS 



Agriculture for Beginners. By C. W. Burkett, F. L. Stevens, D. 

 H. Hill. Boston: Ginn. New Edition with supplement. 



This well and favorably known guide to elementary agriculture has been 

 improved by the addition of a supplement of about sixty pages, dealing with 

 common vegetables, flower and window gardening, forage plants, sugar cane, 

 and cotton-boll weevil. 



Nature Study Lessons. By Mrs. Lida B. McMurry. New York: 

 Macmillan. 1905. Pp. 190. 60 cents. 



This is a series of lesson plans for primary grades, dealing with about 

 twenty common animals and ten plants. The lessons are worked out along 

 interesting lines, and the book will be very useful to beginners who must have 

 definite guides in their nature-study teaching. 



Window Gardening. By H. B. Dorner. Purdue University, La 

 Favette, Ind. 



A verv practical little bulletin dealing with pots, window-boxes, potting 

 plants, watering, insect enemies, fertilizers, propagation from seed and from 

 cuttings, and other things which interest growers of house plants. The most 

 satisfactory plants for schoolrooms are geraniums, Asparagus Sprengeri, ferns 

 (sword, Boston, Pierson and Scott), primroses and various bulbs. Full 

 directions concerning them are given. A limited edition of the pamphlet is 

 being distributed by the President of the University. 



Boys and Girls Magazine. Ithaca, N. Y. Monthly. 50 cents a year. 



The latest issues of this interesting nature magazine for children, edited by 

 Martha Van Rensselaer, contains many short articles on pet animals, birds, 

 insects, plants, and physical phenomena in which children are likely to have 

 an interest. 



How to Know Wild Fruits. By Maude G. Peterson. New York: 

 Macmillan. 1905. Pp. 340, ill. 



This is " a guide to plants when not in flower by means of fruit and leaf." 

 There are many guides to flowers, by which we most commonly identity 

 plants; but in these days when country life has so many devotees there is need 

 of guides based on characteristics visible in months other than those when plants 

 flower. This field-book will be useful so far as colors of fruits may be the 

 starting point towards identification. The descriptions are clear and the book 

 seems workable for anv reader who has a little knowledge of high-school 

 botany. 



An introductory chapter on " Adaptations of Fruits and Seeds for Dis- 

 persal " is in general open to the questions which have been raised in this 

 magazine in No. 6, page 262, 276 ; and No. 7, page 39. 



