96 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



has made almost constant use of the "Book of Vegetables" 

 since it appeared. A more usable volume for the amateur 

 would be hard to find. Practically everything grown in Amer- 

 ican gardens is given a place and as the subjects are arranged 

 alphabetically any information one is looking for is soon 

 forth coming. After a short general discussion of a plant there 

 follows very definite information on soil, how and when to 

 sow, thinning, transplanting, cultivating, fertilizing, harvest- 

 ing, storing, plant diseases, etc., etc. The book is a well il- 

 lustrated 12mo. running to 300 pages and is issued by the 

 MacMillan Company at $1.75 net. We wish somebody would 

 make a similar book of annual flowers, and another of peren- 

 nials. 



The "Garden Month by Month" is a usable book of an- 

 other kind. It is devoted to flowering plants, but is not so 

 much interested in recommending special flowers for culti- 

 vation as in offering to the amateur information as to color, 

 height and time of blooming of the hardy perennials. From 

 this array it is expected that the gardener will be able to se- 

 lect his plants, as an artist selects his colors, and therewith 

 paint his border and beds in any color or combination of colors 

 desired. The flowers of every month from March to Septem- 

 ber are thus treated, all the flowers of each color being list- 

 ed together, so that if one chooses to have a certain border 

 blue or red in June for instance a very short reference to the 

 book will give all the species available for the work together 

 with their common and scientific names, height and require- 

 ments as to shade and soil, their usual season of bloom, des- 

 cription of the flowers, how propagated, etc. The book is a 

 fine specimen of the printers art, and contains more than 500 

 octavo pages and 150 superb illustrations. A color chart illus- 

 trating 63 named colors with which the colors of the flowers 

 treated have been compared, makes possible an exact selection 

 of flower colors. (New York, The F. A. Stokes Co., $4.00 

 net.) 



