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HORTICULTURE 



January 27, 1917 



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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Practical School and Home Gar- 

 DEXS, by George W. Hood. Asso- 

 ciate Professor of Horticulture, in 

 charge of Vegetable Gardening, Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska. This book is 

 written especially for elementary 

 Bcliool and home vegetable garden 

 work. It can be used for school work 

 between the sixth and twelfth grades, 

 as its language is simple and lucid 

 and it is also suitable for anyone who 

 wishes to prepare and cultivate a 

 home garden large or small as it 

 covers all the ordinary problems of 

 culture from seed or cutting up to har- 

 vesting time as in up-to-date practice, 

 with special directions for each class 

 of table vegetables. There are numer- 

 ous engravings, also twenty-four plant- 

 ing diagrams for gardens of varying 

 extent which will be found very use- 

 ful by the garden maker. The book 

 contains 182 pages and seems to fill a 

 place that for a long time has 

 been vacant. Valuable references are 

 given at the end of each chapter for 

 those wishing to know more about the 

 subject. The Iwok is published by 

 Long & Company, Educational Publish- 

 ers, Lincoln, Nebraska. Local seeds- 

 men in every town should be able to 

 dispose of many copies among their 

 customers who aspire to raise their 

 home vegetables and thus materially 

 increase their seed sales. 



Field Note.s on Sweet Peas, ai.so 

 Historical akd Cultltkal Notes. Ed- 

 ited by Lester L. Morse and published 

 by C. C. Morse & Co., San Francisco. 

 Price $1.50. This is the leading Sweet 

 Pea Manual published in this country 

 and the present edition is revised and 

 brought right up to date including the 

 season of 1916. The contents are 

 chapters on the following: Classes or 

 Types and History of each; color clas- 

 sification and preferred lists; complete 

 list of Spencers and Grandifloras 

 with descriptions. ConiDlete list of 

 Early Flowering varieties with descrip- 

 tions. List of Cupids. Mendelism. Cul- 

 ture for Exhibition. Culture for Ordi- 

 nary Garden Use. Culture for East. 

 Insect Troubles. Hints for Exhibitors. 

 The lists of names comprise a grand 



total in all classes and varieties of 

 1,870 names, a considerable number of 

 which are confessedly synonymous. 

 Alternate pages are left blank for 

 observations and notes. 



Growing Cherries East or the 

 Rocky Mountains. — This is the sub- 

 ject of Farmers' Bulletin 776, of the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, by H. 

 r^. Gould, pomologist in charge of fruit 

 production investigation. Everybody 

 likes cherries. Unrivalled in beauty 

 when in bloom or attractiveness as 

 fruit when ripe, delicious to eat as 

 fruit or in tlie many forms in which 

 it is cooked the cherry is something 

 we like to read about and think about 

 and so this bulletin interests us great- 

 ly. There are many fine illustrations. 

 Plant more cherries. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR CON- 

 TEMPLATED. 

 Mattituck, N. Y.— Halsey Reeve & 

 Son, two houses. 



Tekamah, Neb. — Beum & Chase, 

 range of houses. 



Fort Dodge, la.— E. D. Curtis, Eagle 

 Grove, one house. 



Richmond, Va. — Ira L. Anderson 

 44th street, additions. 



Little Compton, Mass. — Peckham 

 Bros., one house completed. 



South Sudbury, Mass. — Henry N. 

 Katon, one house completed. 



Mt. Hope, Mass.— F. P. Falk, Berry 

 street, one house completed. 



Manchester, N. H. — Joseph Cerweny, 

 McC'lintock street, one house. 



Newton Center, Mass. — L. K. Lig- 

 gett, 185 Hammond street, one house. 



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1,212,644. Seed Gatherer. Joseph G. 

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Hanover, Mass.— William Cain, of 

 Newton, has taken over the florist 

 business of George F. Sylvester and 

 will erect additional greenhouses. 



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