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physiology of the different organs of the plant, and with the 

 present volume forms a very interesting presentation of the 

 whole subject. The volume just issued costs $1.00. It is 

 marked Part II. and is paged consecutively with the first 

 part, indicating that the two are ultimately to be bound in 

 one. 



If anybody who reads "The Joyous Art of Gardening", 

 by Frances Duncan, fails to see the joyous part of it, the 

 fault is surely not the author's, for she writes in a way that 

 should prove an inspiration to anyone with the slightest 

 interest in growing things. The author is a well known 

 writer on gardening subjects and in this book has treated 

 of back yard fences and their improvement, pergolas, lat- 

 tices, cold frames, cuttings, pruning, transplanting and 

 similar matters that are of perennial interest to the gar- 

 dener. Although it does not claim to be a manual of gar- 

 dening, there are lists of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 

 plants for various effects, directions for selecting and plant- 

 ing the right kind of specimens, and sufficient other obser- 

 vations to cover 230 pages. The book is intended for the 

 beginning gardener and ought to make interesting reading 

 even in city flats. It is published by Charles Scribner's 

 Sons at $1.75. 



"Useful Plants Every Child Should Know", by Julia 

 Ellen Rogers, appears to be a pretty complete account of 

 the food and fiber plants of the world. The book, however, 

 is not a dissertation on how to grow the plants, nor yet a 

 description of their botanical characters, but is instead an 

 entertaining treatise on their origin, relationships, flavors, 

 methods of preparing for the table, and other general good 

 qualities which the botanist usually omits as foreign to 

 pure science, but which is the chief theme of the housewife, 

 Few books of its size contain more useful information or 

 have it presented in a more attractive way. It is published 

 by Grosset and Dunlap, New York. 



