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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



Bailey's New Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Horticulture. Volume V, P. to R. in- 

 clusive, of this monumental work has 

 been received from the publishers. The 

 MacMillan Company, New York. A 

 perusal of the volume only adds to our 

 appreciation of the unprecedented 

 service Dr. Bailey has rendered Iti 

 placing such a comprehensive and au- 

 thoritative treasury of horticultural 

 thought, learning and achievement be- 

 fore the people. Vol. V. comprises 

 pages 2423 to 3041. There are twenty 

 beautiful page plates, several of w^hich 

 are in colors and the cuts used to il- 

 lustrate the text run from No. 2694 to 

 3515. This shows an increase of 1449 

 pages and 1248 illustrations as com- 

 pared with the contents of the corres- 

 ponding volume in the old edition of 

 the Cyclopedia, which gives some idea 

 of the immense work which has been 

 put into this new edition. A new chap- 

 ter on Planting alone fills 50 pages. 

 Prunus occupies 22 pages as against 

 13 in the older edition, Pyrus 13 

 against 7, Rhododendron 18 against 9. 

 The chapters on the Rose occupy 40 

 pages, to which ten collal)oralors have 

 contributed. 



No florist or gardener should think 

 of getting along without owning a copy 

 of the Cyclopedia of Horticulture. The 

 sixth and last volume will soon be 

 available. The price for the full set is 

 $36.00. HoRTici'i.TriiE can supply it 

 either by installments or complete at 

 the publisher's price, ?6.00 per volume. 



Tree Wounds and Diseases, Their 

 Prevention and Treatment, by A. D. 

 Webster. Thirty-two full page plates 

 and other illustrations, lar^je 8vo. 12.50 

 net. J. B. Lippincott Company, Pub- 

 lishers, Philadelphia. The infirmities 

 of trees and how to overcome them Is 

 a subject which has caused much anx- 

 iety and demanded incessant attention 

 and study from time immemorial but 

 so far as we are aware the volume now 

 before us is the first work devoted ex- 

 clusively to this Important subject. 

 That such a book is needed, all our 

 readers know and at the present time 

 when so many inexperienced operators 

 are abroad in the land its appearance 

 is especially to be welcomed. The au- 

 thor, A. D. Webster, Regents' Park, 

 London, knows his subject in a scien- 

 tific and thoroughly practical way, and 

 this book is the summing up of his ex- 

 periences in many years of work and 

 observation. There can be no question 

 that any one entrusted with or inter- 

 ested in the care of trees, ornamental 

 or fruit, will find much of value to 

 him in this lucid and thorough pre- 

 sentation of the dire results sure to 

 follow from neglect of injured bark, 

 poor pruning, fungus growth, insect 

 ravages, bad soil and atmosphere ef- 

 fects, diseased branches, cavities, etc, 

 and the means to be adopted for pre- 

 vention and cure. The author has un- 

 dertaken to bring home to those re- 



sponsible for trees that with a small 

 outlay of labor and expense, intelli- 

 gently applied, the lifetime of old, his- 

 toric or accidentally damaged speci- 

 mens may be greatly extended. The 

 illustrations are unusually good and 

 the large type and clearness of the 

 printed pages will make reading a 

 pleasure especially to those whose eye- 

 sight is not of the best. It is a good 

 book and well worth the price. 

 Copies may be obtained from the office 

 of HoTicuLTURE at publishers' price. 



The Page Company of Boston send 

 out about this time each year a num- 

 ber of splendid books of wholesome, 

 high-class fiction by clever writers, at 

 popular prices, which find an enormous 

 sale as holiday gifts. This comi)any is 

 doing a real service to the public in 

 the publication of so many of these 

 excellent stories and we never hesitate 

 to recommend them to those of our 

 readers who are looking for books to 

 please the young and young-old people 

 at Christmas time. Among this year's 

 quota are the following: 



The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia, 

 as its title indicates, is a book for 

 boys. It is a tale of life in the wilder- 

 ness of the great Northwest by Harri- 

 son Adams, uniform with the five pre- 

 vious volumes of The Young Pioneer 

 Series by this author, this book com- 

 pleting the set. The story is full of 

 adventure and spirited action and it is 

 appropriately illustrated with six full- 

 page pictures by Walter S. Rogers. 

 The narrative appeals irresistibly to 

 every boy, but it is something more 

 than mere fiction, being carefully 

 founded upon fact as to conditions and 

 experiences in the explorations west- 

 ward from St. Louis following the pur- 

 chase from France of the vast terri- 

 tory known as Louisiana. As the Bos- 

 ton Globe expresses it, "Such books 

 are an admirable means of stimulating 

 among the young Americans of today 

 interest in the story of their pioneer 

 ancestors and the early days of the 

 Republic." Price $1.25 net, $1.40 post- 

 paid. 



Man Proposes, or the Romance of 

 John Alden Shaw. By Eliot H. Rob- 

 inson lllui-trations with frontispiece 

 in color bv \Vm. Van Dresser. Here is 

 a skilfully laid romance of more than 

 passing interest, wierd and almost 

 tragic in some of its quickly changing 

 scenes. Its action is centered in Bos- 

 ton and Newport principally and the 

 realistic word pictures of the inside 

 life, manners pnd gaieties of the sum- 

 mer society of the great watering 

 place will be found full of absorbing 

 interest. Price $1.25 net. 



The Violin Lady. A sequel to The 

 Fiddling Girl and The Proving of Vir- 

 ginia. By Daisy Rhodes Campbell. This 

 pretty little romantic story contains 

 the adventures of the heroine of the 

 two preceding publications and tells of 

 her triumphs and hardships abroad, of 

 her friends and her love affairs, and 

 finally her wedding bells and return to 



America. This volume has pronounced 

 even far ahead of the earlier books in 

 interest and cliarm. It is a bright, 

 snappy story all through written in a 

 delightful vein and the girls will like 

 it. There are seven full-page plates 

 and prontispiece in colors, by John 

 Goss. Price $1.25 net. 



The Road to Le Reve. By Brewer 

 Corcoran. Illustrations by H. Weston 

 Taylor, with colored frontispiece. The 

 .scene of this narrative is laid in Maine. 

 It is a story of society and the wilder- 

 ness, and shows a thorough familiarity 

 with l)oth on the part of the author. 

 The fishing club of the multimillion- 

 aires, whose interests spread out like 

 the web of a spider, furnishes the set- 

 ting for a romance combining an in- 

 sight into the methods of modern 

 American enterprise and finance with 

 a fascinating love story full of youth, 

 open air and adventure. Price $1 25 

 net. 



Anne's Wedding. By lola May Mul- 

 lins. Third in the series of The Blos- 

 som Shop Stories. The previous vol- 

 umes have been warmly commended 

 and this one is considered the best of 

 the series. It is written in a style 

 which is original and romantically in- 

 genuous, and is very sunshiny" and 

 charming in its portrayal of life and 

 cu.vtoms in the South. These stories 

 with tlieir picturesque southern setting 

 have charmed both young and old. 

 Tlie effect of its perusal is to make one 

 feel that "the world is a pleasant place 

 to live in." Price $1.25 net; $1.40 post- 

 paid. 



My Garden. By Louise Beebe Wild- 

 er. Doubleday Page & Co., publishers. 

 This IS an excellent book, written for 

 the amateur by an amateur— an ama- 

 teur who is far from being an ama- 

 teur in horticultural knowledge, and 

 deeply imbued with the gardening 

 spirit and who. it is plain to see. has 

 by practice and first-hand experience 

 acquired a well-grounded perception 

 of her subject far in advance of that 

 possessed by many self-sufiicient pro- 

 fessionals. There are eighteen chap- 

 ters. Their subjects, a list of which 

 will give some idea of the scope of 

 the book, are as follows: In the 

 Making: In the Nursery; The Day 

 Before Spring and the Next; May in 

 the Garden; June Magic; July Prob- 

 lems; Waning Summer: Autumn 

 Beauty; Border Roses and Climbers: 

 Border Irises; The Lure of the Lily; 

 Who's Who Among the Annuals; 

 Shrubs; Flowering Trees in the 

 Borders; Green Draperies; Trouble; 

 Plants for Special Situations: The 

 Herb Garden. Every florist and local 

 nurseryman is called upon to give 

 garden advice and answer innumer- 

 able questions asked by his custom- 

 ers. 'VV'hy not answer them all by 

 having this convenient book on sale 

 and recommending it to all inquirers 

 on gardening topics? It will not only 

 serve this purpose but its distribu- 

 tion in any residential neighborhood 



