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November 3, 1917 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Keport of the (.'oIIoko of Agriculture 

 and the AKrkullurul Kxporluicnl Sta- 

 tion of tile University of rallfornlu. 

 This very interesting publication cov- 

 ers the period from July 1, 1916, to 

 June 30. 1917, including the reports of 

 directors on all phases of the state 

 agricultural activities. A portrait of 

 Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch, Profes- 

 sor of ronioloKV. who died In Febru- 

 ary, 1917, Is given as a fruntlsplece. 



The Twenty Ninth Annual Report of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Part 1. which has 

 just been received, is a document of 

 98 pages, giving reports up to Janu- 

 ary 1, 1917, of the director, details of 

 control work and of the work of the 

 various departments and bureaus, cov- 

 ering a wide Held of experiment, re- 

 search and Instruction. If one were 

 to Judge by the report of the depart- 

 liient of horticulture as it appears in 

 this book, the only activity of tlie year 

 oonslsled of experiments and investl- 

 ^tlon of orcharding problems. 



The Gospel of Beauty and Intelli- 

 gence in Trees, by C. S. Harrison, au- 

 thor of Peony, Phlox and Iris Man- 

 uals, "The Evergreens." "The Undis- 

 covered Country." "Adorning the 

 Beulah Land" and frequent contribu- 

 tor to the columns of Hoiiticiltube. 

 This' 88-page pamphlet is a veritable 

 treasury of beautiful thoughts ex- 

 pressed in beautiful language In the 

 use of which the grand old man of 

 Nebraska has few equals. One never 

 tires of reading these gems from the 

 pen of this master artist, and we pre- 

 dict for this latest offering a repeti- 

 tion of the popular demand which his 

 previous efforts have enjoyed. The 

 Gospel of Beauty, material and spirit- 

 ual, has no more eloquent and devoted 

 apostle than the gifted author of this 

 charming book. 



Fifty-Seventh Annual Report of the 

 Board of Park Commissioners of the 

 City of Hartford, Conn. Including the 

 Ninth Annual Report of the Public 

 Cemeteries, for the Year Ending 

 March 31. 1917. A model business re- 

 port, well printed on heavy paper, 

 showing total expenditures of |101,- 

 451.46 for general maintenance and im- 

 provements for the year. Portraits are 

 given of Rev. James Goodwin and Ly- 

 man Bushnell Brainerd, members of 

 the Board who have died during the 

 year. Appreciative mention is made of 

 the gift to the city by Superintendent 

 George A. Parker of his invaluable li- 

 brary containing more than two thou- 

 sand bound volumes, four thousand 

 pamphlets and a vast collection of pe- 

 riodicals, newspaper clippings, etc., 

 covering all phases of civic life and 

 municipal government. 



Sewlckley Horticultural Society — 

 Program and Handbook for the Exhi- 

 bition of Flowers, Fruits and "Vege- 

 tables. September 28 and 29. This 

 very useful publication has been on 

 the editorial desk for several weeks, 

 together with much other deserving 

 material which has been unavoidably 

 side-tracked from week to week. We 

 give it this tardy review because of 

 its unique character and value and in 

 recognition of the good work done for 



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popular horticulture by Secretary John 

 Carman In its compilation. Success In 

 Seed Sowing. The Art of Planting 

 Trees and Shrubs,, Garden Roses in 

 Summer. Storage of Vegetables. The 

 Care of House Plants. Hints for the 

 1918 War Garden, The Best Sweet 

 Peas. Unusual Flowers Worth Grow- 

 ing, The Care of Cut Flowers, Hints 

 on Table Decoration, Pests of House 

 Plants — these are but a part of the 

 many chapters devoted to really prac- 

 tical instruction in this 64-page pam- 

 phlet. 



Delano. H. R. Darlington, G. L. Paul, 

 W. Dallmore and W. Easlea. An ex- 

 tensive rose garden Is to be laid out 

 at Bartow Mansion and a diagram of 

 the proposed plan is given. The book 

 is a notable addition to current Amer- 

 ican horticultural literature. 



No better evidence could be offered 

 to show the remarkable development 

 of gardening interest among the lei- 

 sure classes in this country than the 

 first issue of the Journal of the Inter- 

 national Garden Club recently pub- 

 lished. The officers of the Inter- 

 national Garden Club are Dr. Nicholas 

 Murray Butler, president of Columbia 

 University, honorary president; Mrs. 

 Charles Frederick Hoffman, president; 

 Dr. George Norton Miller, vice-presi- 

 dent; Mrs. Frederick Pearson, secre- 

 tary; William Turnbull. treasurer. 

 The club house and gardens are at 

 Bartow. Bronx, New Y'ork City. It Is 

 the intention to issue the Journal 

 twice a year for the present. The first 

 issue contains 288 pages of reading 

 matter and beautiful full-page plates 

 of garden views and flowers. A wide 

 range of horticultural topics is cov- 

 ered by the contributors. There is an 

 Introduction to Classification of Gar- 

 den Tulips by A. D. Hall, M. A.; arti- 

 cles on Garden Design by Edward 

 White; The History and Development 

 of the Strawberry by E. A. Bunyard; 

 Informal and Wild Gardening by Nor- 

 man Taylor; I>awns and Their Upkeep 

 by James MacDonald, and many other 

 instructive chapters. Including a series 

 of nine contributions on the subject 

 of Garden Roses by Rev. J. H. Pem- 

 berton, Jules Graveraux, W. Adams 



Saving Vegetable Seeds for the 

 Home and Market Garden is the topic 

 treated in Farmers' Bulletin, No. 884, 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 recently published. The author Is W. W. 

 Tracy. Sr.. than whom no more com- 

 petent authority on this subject could 

 be found. Mr. Tracy, for many years 

 before taking up his important work 

 in the Department of A(,'ricMlture, was 

 in charge of the trial grounds of D. M. 

 Ferry & Co., of Detroit. Mr. Tracy, in 

 this bulletin, calls attention to the fact 

 that with the present urgent necessity 

 for producing increased quantities of 

 food, the seed supply becomes very Im- 

 portant. 



■ Where the seed itself is used for 

 food the high prices have tended to 

 throw HMich-needed seed stocks into 

 the food market, and in many other 

 cases increased plantings have drawn 

 heavily on stocks already low on ac- 

 count of the cutting off of European 

 sources of supply. 



As an emergency measure, therefore, 

 it is important that as much seed as 

 possible should be saved on farms and 

 in market gardens. It has been done 

 widely in the past and can be done 

 readily again. 



This bulletin aims to give plain and 

 explicit directions for saving the seed 

 of our garden vegetables, tells how the 

 supply may be increased, each variety 

 of vecetable being taken up in detail, 

 annuals and biennials being treated 

 separately, and there are explicit illus- 

 trateil instructions for the labeling, 

 fumigating and storing of vegetable 

 seeds. This useful bulletin should 

 have a wide public distribution. 



