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instance, the common yellow and the orange clay lilies 

 (Hemerocallis) are described but not a wort is said about the 

 copper-colored relative of these, or that later lemon lily of 

 August. Cases of this kind could be multiplied indefinitely. 

 On the other hand, we find described such insignificent weeds 

 as the chickweed, mallow, and purslane, and garden vegetables 

 like the beet and spinach. For the sake of more flowers we 

 would willingly dispense with the vile weeds and w^ell known 

 pot-herbs. We hope the author, or someone else will have 

 another try at this subject. So far as the book goes into the 

 subject, however, it is excellent, having much the appearance 

 of other popular manuals with the important features of leaf 

 and flower indicated with more or less matter of a general 

 nature following. The reviewer likes the book but regrets its 

 incompleteness. As it is, it runs to 550 pages and nearly 300 

 illustrations. It is published by Chas. Scribner's Sons, NeW' 

 York. 



The authors of "The .School Garden Book," Messrs. 

 Weed and Emerson, define the school garden as any garden in 

 which a boy or girl of school gge is interested. By this defini- 

 tion they have an extensive fiel'd from which to cull the mater- 

 ial for their book and while they have presented us with a use- 

 ful reference work destined to be consulted frequently by the 

 young gardener it can in no sense be considered as a practical 

 manual of gardening for schools. After an introduction of 

 some twenty pages addressed primarily to the teacher there 

 are twelve chapters named for the month beginning with Sep- 

 tember. In these, in addition to the discussion of flowers that 

 are usually common in such months, or are planted then, there 

 is more or less matter on preparing the soil, selecting seed, 

 cotyledons, structure of flowers and the like. This part is 

 largely descriptive and still appears to have the teacher in 

 view^ The concluding pages contain a series of garden exer- 



