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on the Grape Vine," to which the author has added a chapter on his 

 new method of preparing vines for planting out — a method he has 

 practised with singular success in his new nursery, wherein vines 

 and pines are grown extensively. Messrs. Low and Marston present 

 " My Summer in a Garden," by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, a 

 curious example of the mosb refined form of American wit and 

 humour, and one of the cheerfullest books we have read for many 

 a day. It is quiet, almost sedate, and characterized by a gentle- 

 manly elegance. But its undercurrent of sarcasm, its quaint 

 ebullitions of fun, its serious propounding of original things, and its 

 scintillations of pure humour, will insure it everywhere a joyful 

 reception, and all who read the first page will be pleasantly spell- 

 bound to the last. Messrs. Groombridge and Sons send a set of 

 " Cuthill's Garden Manuals," and " Market Gardening," the fame 

 of which has gone abroad long since, and established them as 

 standard books of their class. Mr. Cuthill was a successful prac- 

 titioner, and bad a happy knack of writing small books in which, as 

 one might say, " at a stroke," he initiates his readev into the art of 

 productive gardening with the least imaginable fear of being mis- 

 understood. Those who look for profit from a garden may find it 

 the quicker for taking counsel of Mr. Cuthill. From the same 

 publishers we are favoured wi^h two little books by Mr. Piper, one 

 on " The Management of Poultry," the other on " The Management 

 of Pigeons." They are admirable so far as they go, and they go far 

 enough for the thousands who keep poultry and pigeons for recrea- 

 tion chiefly, but not without the hope of obtaining from their pets 

 some more substantial rewards for the care bestowed upon them. 

 Mr. Piper has the advantage of a thorough practical acquaintance 

 with his subjects, and the rare tact of keeping to himself things that 

 few need to know, in order to do justice to those matters which have 

 universal interest. We advise those who are at all interested in 

 poultry and pigeons to make acquaintance at once with these pretty 

 brochures, either of which may be read in an hour, and will then be 

 read again, and frequently referred to for the advantage of their 

 wise counsels. "The Amateur's Flower Garden," by Shirley Hibberd, 

 can only be announced as ready for those who want it. If the 

 appreciation of the public is at all commensurate with the care the 

 author has taken to adapt his teachings to the range of amateur 

 practice, the book will be in demand for many a year to come; but 

 on that point, and on every point of its merits and demerits (if it has 

 either), other pens may deal as it may please them ; it is enough that 

 we inform our readers that we have sought in this work to fill an 

 evident gap in the eclectic garden library. Messrs. Groombridge's 

 " Coloured Prints " are showy and good, in many instances remark- 

 ably good, and they comprise a capital series of subjects, flowers, 

 birds, figures, insects, shells, scenes, and museum curiosities. Those 

 who roake up scrap books and screens, and embellish school-rooms 

 ar>& hospital wards, would do well to become acquainted with them, 

 for they are cheap enough and good enough for any purpose for 

 w hich pictures of small size may be required. 



