November 9, 1918 



HORTICULTTTRE 



473 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 New Creations in Plant Life, by W. 

 S. Hanvood.— This is a new edition 

 of the book which has run through 

 several editions, the original volume 

 having been published in the year 

 1905. It is put forward as "An Au- 

 thoritative Account of the Life and 

 Work of Luther Burbank," and no 

 man ever had a more whole-hearted 

 apostle and devotee than Luther Bur- 

 bank appears to have in W. S. Har- 

 wood. The accomplishments of Bur- 

 bank are well known to the world of 

 science and horticulture and their 

 value fairly estimated. Perhaps his 

 usefulness in introducing the Japan- 

 ese plums and other trees and plants 

 previously in obscurity has not been 

 given full credit. His unique meth- 

 ods of introduction and publicity have 

 drawn attention to many a serviceable 

 creation which otherwise might have 

 been left to "waste its sweetness on 

 the desert air." The book is pub- 

 lished by The Macmillan Co., 66 Fifth 

 Ave., New York, at $2.00 per copy. 



Journal of the International Garden 

 Club, September, 1918, Vol. II, No. 3. — 

 This is one of the most useful, as well 

 as the most interesting garden publi- 

 cations which have come to our desk 

 this year. The pervading spirit and 

 zeal of the people who support the 

 International Garden Club, in horti- 

 culture and flowers, is beautifully ex- 

 pressed in the chapter on "Flowers 

 and the War" which we take much 

 pleasure in reprinting in this issue of 

 HoRTicuLTiRE. What florist or gar- 

 dener can peruse it without a new 

 realization of the nobility of his 

 calling? Irises are given special prom- 

 inence in this volume, B. Y. Morrison 

 contributing an interesting illustrated 

 chapter. E. H. Wilson tells about 

 Little Known Japanese Azaleas, John 

 Dunbar relates the Effects of the Win- 

 ter of 1918, Richard Rothe contributes 

 a chapter on Rock Gardens. E. P. 

 Felt describes Two Injurious Leaf 

 Maggots. Other chapters are Wild 

 Plants in Ornamental Planting by 

 Alex. Lurie, Care of Woods and Ra- 

 vines by O. C. Simonds, Landscape 

 Models by A. D. Taylor, Nature's Gar- 

 den Across Southern Canada by A. C. 

 Hottes, Cycads by G. H. Pring, and 

 there is much more that may be read 

 with profit and pleasure. 



The Greenhouse Beautiful, by Philip 

 J. Foley — It is most refreshing and 

 inspiring at a time such as the pres- 

 ent when the industry of greenhouse 

 building has been apparently relegat- 

 ed to the lost arts to see such optimis- 

 tic proof of a belief in its immediate 

 future as is afforded by this artisti- 



cally gotten up publication. It is a 

 charming volume — one might say al- 

 bum — an elegant example of pictorial 

 and printing excellence, Sy, ^ H 

 inches. A conservatory interior, in 

 brilliant floral color forms an appro- 

 priate frontispiece and gives a fore- 

 taste of the good time coming very 

 soon when flowers in abundance, in 

 winter as in suminer, will be one of 

 the most prized appurtenances of 

 every well-appointed home. The struc- 

 tures illustrated in the pages of this 

 book are gems of modern greenhouse 

 construction art and the best of evi- 

 dence that the Foley Mfg. Co. will do 

 their part well that 



"North and South and East and West, 

 The pride of every zone. 

 The fairest, rarest and the best 

 May all be made our own ' 



HoKTicuLTiiKE can supply copies of 

 this book at the publisher's price of 

 $2.50 post paid. 



is on a corresponding plan as to keys 

 and descriptions. The purpose of the 

 volume, naming our common trees and 

 shrubs when without foliage involves 

 a close accounting for small differ- 

 ences between small parts, and so 

 each general is illustrated by detail 

 drawings showing twig, bud scar, pith, 

 etc., enlarged uniformly to three di- 

 ameters. The key to the genera which 

 forms tlie first chapter will be found 

 simple, direct and conclusive and by 

 the further use of the keys to species, 

 systematically arranged under each 

 genus, natives and introduced species, 

 as well as genera may be readily 

 named in nearly every case. 



Although conifers are excluded, the 

 first volume being sufficiently service- 

 able for their identification at any sea^ 

 son of the year, the present volume 

 deals. 



Winter Botany, by William Tre- 

 lease. Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. — Professor Tre- 

 lease has given us a new and a very 

 useful book, which will be widely wel- 

 comed by the many people who are in- 

 terested in trees and shrubs and will 

 be delighted to possess a sure means 

 through which the woody plants may 

 be recognized in winter, sometimes 

 more certainly than when in flower. 

 The undertaking has been put through 

 with Professor Trelease's well-known 

 thoroughness and attention to detail 

 and nothing of its completeness in its 

 field has been published before. It is 

 a companion volume to the author's 

 Plant Materials for Decorative Gar- 

 dening, previously published, of con- 

 venient size for carrying in the pock- 

 et and with 326 genera belonging to 

 93 families and although species and 

 varieties are not differentiated to the 

 same extent as in the earlier volume, 

 the keys lead to the names of about 

 1100 such forms. 



As usual at this season The Page 

 Company of Boston have put on the 

 book market in anticipation of the 

 holiday season a number of new and 

 attractive books by leading writers of 

 fiction. This year's quota includes 

 two that are especially timely and pa- 

 triotic, viz "The Yanks Are Coming!" 

 by Wm. Slavens McNutt and "Go Get 

 'Em," by Wm. A. Wellman, Mare- 

 chal des Logis. of the Lafayette Fly- 

 ing Corps. In The Yanks Are Com- 

 ing Mr. McNutt has given us an in- 

 formative and useful book which will 

 prove most interesting and appealing 

 not only to those whose sons and 

 brothers are "over there" or in train- 

 ing to go. He tells why no nation on 

 earth can turn out the stamp of sol- 

 dier that stands back of Uncle Sam, 

 who make the hardest-to-lick soldiers 

 in the world. The book breathes the 

 real spirit of the men of New Eng- 

 land, the South, the Middle West, the 

 Pacific Coast — men who make up the 

 great American Army. Illustrated. 

 Price, $1.50. 



""Go Get 'Em." Sergeant Wellman's 

 story is unquestionably the most un- 

 usual and illuminating in its realm yet 

 told in print. When a young Yankee 

 athlete makes up his mind to play a 

 part in the most thrilling game which 

 the world has ever witnessed — ^war in 

 mid-air — the result is certain to pro- 

 duce a heart-thrilling story. Marechal 

 Wellman was the only American in 

 the air over Gen. Pershing's Rainbow 

 Division when our troops made their 

 historic first over-the-top attack on 

 the Hun, and during that battle he 

 was in command of the lowest platoon 

 of French fighting planes. It is an 

 ardent and thrilling story, intensely 

 fascinating, and the horrifying details 

 of modern air warfare holds the reader 

 of this narrative irresistibly spell- 

 bound. Price, net, $1.50; handsomely 

 illustrated. 



"Three Boys in the Indian Hills " 

 is the latest story for boys by W. S. 

 Ph'illips, author of "The Sandman, 

 His Indian stories, and it will doubt- 

 less enjoy equal popularity. Frontier 

 forts, tenderfeet, wild night alarms, 

 buffalo hunts and all the concomitants 

 of the stirring wild life which boys de- 

 light in have here been depicted in 

 a story which is not all fiction but is 

 events recorded of the old days of the 

 Northern plains when the Indians and 

 wild game roamed the country at 

 will. Six full-page illustrations and 

 frontispiece in color. Price, $1.50 net. 



