326 REVIEWS OF BOOKS. [Sept. 



Keviews of ^ooks. 



NEW CROPS FOR OUR OLD LAND. 



Hoin to make tlie Land Pay ; or, Profitable, Ind%Lstrics connected with 

 the Land and suitable to all Occupations, large or small. By 

 Henry P. Dunstee, M,A., Vicar of Wood-Bastwick, Norfolk. 

 London : Longmans, Green, & Co. 



WE noticed in our number of last November the protest by this 

 reverend author, just then published in the Nineteenth 

 Century, against the great sum annually drawn by foreigners for 

 articles of farm produce which might be grown within our own 

 borders were England turned into a market garden. The present 

 volume of 230 pages enlarges on the theme, and is planned so as to 

 overtake the various items enumerated in the table we pubKshed 

 from the Board of Trade returns. The diversion of the £3 8,0 0,0 

 or so, annually abstracted from John Bull's pockets, back into those 

 of the cultivators of his own acres, would surely ensure attention to 

 this book. But it has other recommendations. The author com- 

 bines the role of a university man with one who has long lived 

 amongst rural surroundings, besides having by travel been speciall}^ 

 qualified to discuss the items under review. As already hinted, the 

 book covers a wide range of topics. Dairy and poultry farmers, 

 rabbit rearers, curers of ham and bacon, fruit and flower farmers, 

 bee-keepers, and fish-breeders have all special chapters. And in 

 such a plethora of interesting matter, all coming within our scope, we 

 can only meanwhile call attention to other discussions of industries 

 perhaps connected most directly with the vocation of our readers. 



In the chapter on filbert-growing, the labours of Mr, Cooper of 

 Eeading are fully recognised. On a well-sheltered hillside, for 

 instance, £100 a year may be made from an acre cropped with 

 first-class cob-filberts after the first five or six years. Indeed, 

 security of tenure is a necessity for filbert cultivation. A lease of 

 fourteen years, with a power of renewal for seven years more, is 

 perhaps the best arrangement. Fruit and nut growing may be 

 advantageously combined. In good soil forty standard trees of 

 apples, pears or plums and damsons may be grown on an acre on 

 which 320 nut trees maybe growing at the same time; while 

 during the earlier years, ere the filberts have reached their market- 

 able size, gooseberries, currants, or potatoes may be profitably grown 

 between the rows. But when the filberts have reached their proper 



