452 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



pp. X^GIO + XIII, fiff.'^. o7o}. — TluH is a comprehensive po]Hilar work, prepared par- 

 ticularly for the home gardener. It treats of all the cultural operations of the flowiT, 

 fruit, and vegetal tie garden, and of gnnving and handling fruits under glass. Esj)ecial 

 attention has been given to details and illustrations of the laying out and arrangement 

 of larger pleasure grounds, the planting of shrubs, trees, and flowers, the arrangement 

 of rock and water gardens, management of lakes and running water, and p-lanting of 

 hedges and wild gardens. Under the different subjects the various fruits, tiowers, 

 shrubs, vegetables, etc., are arranged alphabetically, thus making reference easy. 

 Chapters on insect enemies and diseases of garden plants, fruits, and vegetables are 

 included. An abundance of good illustrations of all the different suljjects considered 

 is one of the special features of the work. 



The art and craft of garden making, T. H. M.\wsox {London: (iforge Niimesd- 

 Co., Ltd., 1901, 2. cd., iq>. 252, fi(jx. 178). — Garden designing and all the elements that 

 enter into garden making, like fences, entrance gateways, terrace and flower gardens, 

 lawns, garden walks, summer houses, trellis work, garden furniture, conservatories, 

 greenhouses, vineries, fruit houses, fountains, lakes, streams, ponds, kitchen gardens, 

 orchards, hedges, trees, shrubs, hardy climbing plants, roses, hardy perennials, 

 aquatics, ferns, etc., are considered in 15 different chapters. More than 130 plans 

 and details are given of gardens designed by the author. He believes that while 

 formal treatment of gardens is most likely to give satisfactory results, nothing is 

 gained by slavish adherence to style or tradition. A short history is given in the 

 opening chapter of the several styles of laying out gardens in England, the qualities 

 connnendable in each being pointed out. 



Cabbage, cauliflower, and allied vegetables from seed to harvest, C". I>. 

 Allex (A>»' York: Ormuje Jndd ComjXDn/, 1901, pp. 125, Jiijs. ,^7) .—Concise and prac- 

 tical directions are here given for the commercial and garden culture of cabbage, 

 cauliflower, collards, Brussels sprouts, kale or borecole, and kohl-rabi. Types and 

 varieties of each are described, and the great value of selected seed and intensive 

 culture pointed out. The two final chapters deal with injurious insects and the 

 fungus diseases of the different plants. 



Vegetable tests for 1900, L. R. Taft and M. L. De.\n {Mirhiymi Slo. Bui. 190, 

 pp. 123-155). — This bulletin is similar in character to those of preceding years (E. S. 

 R., 11, p. 250). Descriptions and data are given for tests of 23 dwarf and 12 pole 

 varieties of beans, 34 varieties of cabbage, 16 of sweet corn, 24 of cu(;um])ers, 40 of 

 lettuce, 17 of peas, 130 of potatoes, 25 of radishes, 22 of squash, 4 of i>umpkins, and 

 85 of tomatoes. An outline is given of some fertilizer experiments with i^otatoes, 

 and the amount of the different elements or combinations used on the different plats. 

 The season of 1899 was rather dry for the use of commercial fertilizers, and from a 

 strictly cash basis the increase in yield of potatoes was not sufficient to warrant their 

 use. In 1900 the results were contradictory. 



The influence of night shelter on vegetable production, A. Petit (Jour. Soc. 

 N(d. Hod. France, 4. tur., 2 (1901), Mnr., jtp. 19H, 197). — Various mats, screens, can- 

 vas, and other contrivances are frequently nseil for protecting plants at night from 

 frost. The author investigated the value of such shelter in vegetal)le production 

 aside from frost protection by selecting a number of plants which are resistant to 

 frost. In these experiments the screens were stretched horizontally on a framework 

 about 12 cm. above the plants at night and a record kept of the growth as compared 

 with similar plants not thus treated. The following table shows the difference in 

 yield of cabbage, gilliflower, and lettuce between sheltered and unsheltered plants 

 r>er unit of surface (1 are): 



