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the questions on seeds, roots, leaves and the like that are de- 

 signed to prepare the student for work in analyzing flowers. 

 These are quite suggestive and founded upon right methods, 

 requiring the pupil to think for himself. The book is bound 

 in paper and costs 60 cents net. 



The average man, if he thinks of the subject at all, is 

 likely to class the landscape gardener with the man who sods 

 the lawn or spades up the back garden, but appreciative folk 

 know him as an artist who paints his pictures with trees, 

 bushes and flowers on a canvas of broad sweeping greensward. 

 Such a man points to great public parks or less pretentious 

 though no less beautiful private places as evidences of his skill 

 and his name is associated with the work exactly as is the name 

 of the architect with some magnificent building. In "Land- 

 scape Gardening Studies" recently issued by the John Lane 

 Company, New York, the author, Samuel Parsons describes 

 some twenty masterpieces of his own, among them the rehabili- 

 tation of Central Park, New York, a seaside park at Coney 

 Island, the Russell Sage home at Sag Harbor, and the colonial 

 gardens at Van Cortland Park, New York. There are also 

 plans for cemeteries, playgrounds, private estates, school 

 grounds and other plantings. In discussing each feature of 

 these plans the author explains all the operations needed to 

 bring them to perfection, and those studying or practicing this 

 difficult art will find many helpful suggestions in the book. It 

 is published at $2.00 net., postage 10 cents. 



A British book by Harold C. Long on the "Common 

 Weeds of Farm and Garden" will make interesting reading on 

 this side of the Atlantic not only for the individuals who 

 take the principal parts in the "Controversy with Weeds" as the^ 

 author humorously dubs agriculture, but for botanists as well. 

 An excursion through the book shows that British and Ameri- 

 can weeds are pretty much alike as we can well understand, 



