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•Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of 



Massachusetts and Adjacent States. By 



Edward Howe Forhush. Massachusetts 



State Board of Agriculture. 



This book includes those birds which have 



-been used for food but have disappeared since 



the settlement of the country, and those which 



are now hunted for food or for sport, with 



observations on their former abundance and 



recent decrease in numbers ; also the means 



for conserving those still in existence. The 



book is freely illustrated and the mechanical 



make-up is good. 



Manual of Fruit Insects. By the late Mark 

 Vernon Slingerland and Cyrus Richard 

 Crosby. New York City: The Macmillan 

 Company. 



This book is a full and practical account of 

 the insects which attack fruits — the enemies 

 • of the apple, pear, peach, plum, bush fruits, 

 grapes, strawberries and cranberries. The au- 

 thors give the life history of each insect, de- 

 scribe the injuries which it inflicts and make 

 recommendations as to the means of control, 

 primarily from the standpoint of the commer- 

 ■cial grower. The more than four hundred il- 

 lustrations in the volume were made largely 

 from photographs taken by Professor Slinger- 

 land. 



The Principles of Fruit Growing. By L. Ff. 



Bailey. Xew York City : The Macmillan 



Company. 



Revised and rewritten throughout, the pres- 

 «ent edition of this book (the twentieth) em- 

 bodies the latest information on fFuit-growing, 

 including accounts of the most recent prac- 

 tices and discoveries. The different kinds of 

 fruits, the heating of orchards to protect them 

 from frost, the treatment of diseases and in- 

 sects, the planning and laying out of orchards, 

 ;and the important topic of fertilizers, are all 

 ■adequately discussed. The illustrations are 

 new and were made from hand drawings spe- 

 cially executed for this issue. 



The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Grow- 

 ing for the Home Garden. By George 

 C. Thomas, Jr., Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania: J. B. Lippincott Company. 



The rose is a magnificently beautiful flower; 

 the same phrase rightly characterizes this 

 book. There are eight half-tone plates 01 

 roses, and ninety-six full page,, perfect re- 

 productions in color. The book is one of the 

 most attractive that have come to the re- 

 viewer's desk. The illustrations are unequal- 

 led. Although the price is four dollars, the 

 book should have a wide sale. It is a magnifi- 

 cent production — a fitting portrayal of a mag- 

 nificent flower. To study the colored plates 

 following the body of the book is the next 

 best thing to visiting a rose garden ; indeed 

 their beauty excels that of many such gardens. 

 The author has achieved remarkable success 

 in rose growing. With him the work has been 

 a lifelong hobby. He has tried all known 

 varieties and his labor has made his rose 

 gardens famous. 



Mr. Thomas devoted three years toward 

 the making and perfecting of autochrome 

 color photographs from perfect examples of 

 roses. The ninety-six illustrations in color 

 are extraordinary reproductions of these made 

 under his personal direction. 



Manipulation of the Microscope. By Ed- 

 ward Bausch, Rochester, New York : 



The Bausch & Lomb Optical Company. 

 Many inquiries personally and otherwise 

 •come to this office regarding the best method 

 -of using the microscope. "Microscopical 

 Praxis," published by the editor of the mag- 

 azine several years ago, and written by Dr. 

 Alfred C. Stokes,, is undoubtedly the best 

 thing published on the subject in the days of 

 amateur microscopy. But that book has long 

 "been out of print, though many requests for it 

 still continue to come. The book by Edward 

 Bausch gives full credit in the preface to "Mi- 

 croscopical Praxis" and also to Professor S. 

 H. Gage's "The Microscope and Microscopical 

 Methods." For a book that is not too exten- 

 sive, this by Edward Bausch is the best now 

 obtainable; for something more elaborate 

 ■one should have Professor Gage's work, pub- 

 'lished by The Comstock Publishing Company, 

 Ithaca, New York. These two books give 

 the ideal instructions for the manipulation 

 •of the microscope. 



Plant Breeding. By L. H. Bailey. New- 

 Edition Revised by Arthur W. Gilbert, Ph. 

 D. New York City : The Macmillan Com- 

 pany. 



Professor Bailey's standard text, originally 

 issued some twenty years ago, has been re- 

 vised and brought down to date by A. W. Gil- 

 bert, Professor of Plant Breeding in the New 

 York State College of Agriculture. In addi- 

 tion to the many changes made in the material 

 that has been retained, there are now included 

 in the volume new discussions of mutations, 

 Mendelism, heredity and the recent applica- 

 tions of the breeding of plants. There are 

 also extensive laboratory exercises and a bib- 

 liography. Altogether the work is a compre- 

 hensive encyclopedia on the subject of plant- 

 breeding. 



Bird-Lore for March-April continues its in- 

 teresting story of "Bird-Life in Southern 

 Illinois," with a Naturalists' Diary for 1914, 

 covering the vegetation, weather and bird sta- 

 tistics of Larchmound, with interesting pic- 

 tures of the estate : while a photograph of a 

 half-dozen Canada Geese,, high up in the sky, 

 might pass for a picture of a flock of German 

 "Taubes" flying over Belgium. 



This issue of Bird-Lore is particularly rich 

 in the number of unique pictures it contains, 

 notably those of the Arizona Road-runner, 

 showing the bird under almost every possible 

 condition. "Facts about Cats" reveals a con- 

 dition not so well known, and, in the School 

 Department, the pictures of bird-houses made 

 by school-boys in Ohio and Canada, make an 

 interesting feature of one of the most valu- 

 able issues of this magazine- 



The color plates by Fuertes, particularly 

 that of the Towhee, are very rich in coloring, 

 and add much to the beauty of the magazine. 



