368 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The best hardy perennials for cut flowers, F. W. Meyer [Liverpool: Blake & 

 yktckenzie, 1901, pp. I04, col. ph. 48). — Descriptions illustrated by colored jjlates 

 together with cultural directions are given for a large number of the more i)opular 

 hardy perennials used for cut flowers in Ureat Britain. 



Commercial violet culture: A treatise on the growing and marketing of 

 violets for profit, B. T. Galloway {Neiv York: A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. 

 Co., Ltd., 1903, -2. ed. rev., pp. 239, figs. 67). — The first edition of this treatise, previ- 

 ously noted (E. S. R., 11, p. 852), has been slightly revised to conform to the changes 

 in the methods of growing violets for the market that have occurred during the past 

 4 years. 



Sweet violets and pansies {Netv York: Chas. Scnbner's Sons, 1903, pp. 100, pis. 

 13, figs. S). — Practical information is contained in this book on the culture of pansies, 

 sweet violets, and wild violets. It has been written by several authorities and edited 

 by E. T. Cook. 



Soil-carrying machine, C. H. Roney {Amer. Florist, 21 (1903), No. 801, pp. 392, 

 393, figs. 5). — A description is given of a machine used in carrying soil into green- 

 houses. The machine is believed to be a decided advantage over wheelbarrows or 

 any other contrivance used by florists for this purpose. 



Directory of florists, nurserymen, and seedsmen of the United States and 

 Canada [Chicago: Amer. Florist Co., 1903, pp. 414)- — In this directory the addresses 

 are given of the florists, nurserymen, seedsmen, gardeners, horticulturists, landscape 

 architects, parks, cemeteries, botanical gardens, societies, and horticultural supply 

 concerns of the United States and Canada. The matter is arranged both bj' States 

 and post-offices, and all names alphabetically. Considerable statistical matter has 

 been incorporated from the United States Census of 1900. 



FORESTRY. 



Principles of American forestry, S. B. Green [New York: .John Wiley & Sons, 

 1903, pp. XIV -j- 334, figs. 73). — This is a book on elementary forestry which has been 

 prepared especially for students and other beginners of the subject, as well as for the 

 general reader who wishes to secure a general idea of forestry in North America. 

 INIuch of the matter included was originally published by the author under the title 

 Forestry in Minnesota (E. S. R., 14, p. 361), the material being largely rewritten for 

 the present volume so as to be more general in character and better adapted to the 

 whole countrv. 



Our northern shrubs, Harriet L. Keeler [New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 

 1903, j)p. XXX -{- 521, figs. 240). — This is a handbook of the shrubs indigenous and 

 introduced in the region extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi Valley, 

 and from Canada to South Carolina, Georgia, and westward. The arrangement of 

 the shrubs is by families, each representative being scientifically and popularly 

 described; and keys are furnished whereby almost every shrub found in the region 

 embraced may be identified and its habits learned. 



The book is designed not only for the amateur who desires a more complete 

 description of our shrubs than that usually given in text-books, but gives valuable 

 information for the utilization of shrubs in the establishment and decoration of parks, 

 roadways, school yards, railway stations, and home grounds. 



With the trees, Maud Going [New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1903, pp. X+ 335, 

 figs. 40) . — A popular book designed to awaken an interest in trees and their surround- 

 ings. The author defines and describes the different plant organs and describes their 

 functions, after which different tree associations are discussed. In addition to popu- 

 larizing scientific truths regarding trees, the author has introduced considerable folk- 

 lore and legendary fancies regarding them, the whole being woven together in a very 

 attractive manner. 



