148 THE PLANT WORLD. 



not a little study. Everyone who has tried knows verv well what 

 meagre success often follows the majority of efiforts of the win- 

 dow gardener, and in view of the success of the average woman 

 of the country who bestows tin-cans and tender care on her jjlants, 

 the more scientific are not seldom victims of chagrin. This 

 pamphlet will help such to whom we would commend also the 

 article by Professor Balfour on " Physioloi:;ical Droir^Jit in Rela- 

 tion to Gardening," in the Januar}-, 1905, number of the Plant 

 World. 



Hints a)ht Helps for Voinii^ Ganhvicrs/'' by H. D. Hemenway, 

 is an attractive pamphlet designed " not only for youthful garden- 

 ers, but also for those young in experience," h\ one whose expe- 

 rience as the Director of the School of Horticulture of Hartford, 

 well equips him for the task. How to plan the garden, soil tillage, 

 how to test seeds, to plant, to dig and set trees, to make and care 

 for a hotbed, strawberry and asparagtis culture and window gar- 

 dening are the topics treated of in the course of the w(^rk. A 

 table of vegetables, showing dates of planting, data of the methods 

 of ctilture, and other pertinent matters, including " what its culti- 

 vation teaches," is a useful feature, particularly valuable to those 

 doing school garden work. 



The Journal of the Horticultural Society of Xew York is a new 

 quarterly periodical published for the benefit of the members of 

 that society. The first number appeared in April of this vear. 



Ecological treatment of considerable proportions of Northern 

 Michigan has been carried out and a report of 133 pages has been 

 prepared under the direction of Chas. C. Adams. This full paper 

 is published as a report from the University Musetmi and con- 

 stitutes a part of the report of the Geological Survey of the state 

 for 1905. The study includes a survey of the fauna as well as 

 the flora, and gives the reader a very comprehensive account of 

 the natural history of the area taken under consideration. 



* Published by the author, Hartford, Couu. 59 pp., 8vo. Illustrated. 

 35 cents, $20.00 per hundred. 



