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its aspects is only surpassed by his complete knowledge of the insects, 

 both injurious and beneficial, that affect the labors of the horticulturist. 

 The book is written clearly and concisely throughout in our author's well- 

 known terse and vigorous style, and is so free from scientific and technical 

 terms that any fruit-grower, no matter how ignorant of Entomology, can 

 readily obtain from its pages all the information that he can possibly 

 require in reference to most of the insect friends and foes of his trees and 

 bushes. The copious illustrations, moreover, are so beautifully executed 

 and so true to nature that any insect referred to can be at once identified, 

 and the proper mode of dealing with it learnt from the accompanying 

 descriptions. But while the work is so practically valuable to those who 

 are specially interested in fruits, we can assure our Entomological readers 

 that they will find the volume to be an admirable scientific compendium, 

 containing an epitome of the collective knowledge of the day, and bring- 

 ing together into one convenient manual the results of the researches of 

 all the leading Entomologists of America. We do not, indeed, think that 

 we are speaking too highly in praise of the work — though we admit that 

 it is saying a very great deal — when we express our opinion that Mr. 

 Saunders' volume will take rank with that standard of excellence, Harris' 

 Injurious Insects of Massachusetts, and that he has done for insects 

 affecting fruits at the present day what his justly famed predecessor accom- 

 plished long ago for those injurious to vegetation in general. 



The plan of the work, inasmuch as it is intended especially for the use 

 of fruit-growers, is the most satisfactory that could be adopted. The 

 insects treated of are grouped together under the name of the particular 

 fruit that they affect, and are arranged in order according as they attack 

 the root, the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the fruit itself If, therefore, 

 a gardener finds an insect of whose habits he is ignorant, and whose name 

 he has never heard, doing some damage to one of his fruit-bearing trees, 

 or bushes, or vines, he has only to observe to what part of the plant the 

 attack is directed, and then he can at once turn to an illustrated account 

 of the pest, and learn from it all its life-history and what remedies he may 

 most effectively employ for its extermination. On the other hand, if an 

 Entomologist wishes to know in a condensed form what information is 

 available respecting an insect that comes within the scope of the work, he 

 can at once find what he requires by means of the carefully prepared 

 synonymical list and complete index at the end of the book. 



The volume is beautifully printed on fine paper, and neatly bound in 



