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A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING AND ENAMELLING 

 FOR CYCLES, BEDSTEADS. TINWARE, ETC. By 



' William Xorman Brown. 52 pp. and Illustrations. Crown Svo. 

 Price 2s. net. (Post free, 2s. 3d. home and abroad.) 



THE PRINCIPLES OF HOT WATER SUPPLY. By 



John \V. Hart, R.P.C. With 129 Illustrations. 177 pp., demy Svo. 

 Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. lOd. home ; 8s. abroad.) 



House Decorating and Painting. 



THREE HUNDRED SHADES AND HOW TO MIX 

 THEM. For Architects, Painters and Decorators. By A. 

 Desaint, Artistic Interior Decorator of Paris. The book contains 100 

 folio Plates, measuring 12 in. by 7 in., each Plate containing specimens 

 of three artistic shades. These shades are all numbered, and their 

 composition and particulars for mixing are fully given at the beginning 

 of the book. Each Plate is interleaved with grease proof paper, and 

 the volume is very artistically bound in art and linen with the Shield 

 of the Painters' Guild impressed on the cover in gold and silver. Price 

 21s. net. (Post free, 21s. 6d. home ; 22s. 6d. abroad.) 



HOUSE DECORATING AND PAINTING. By W. 



Norman Brown. Eighty-eight Illustrations. 150 pp. Crown Svo. 

 Price 3s. 6d. net. (Post free, 3s. 9d. home and abroad.) 



A HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ART. By W. Norman 

 Brown. Thirty-nine Illustrations. 96 pp. Crown Svo. Price Is. net. 

 (Post free. Is. 3d. home and abroad.) 



WORKSHOP WRINKLES for Decorators, Painters, Paper- 

 hangers and Others By \V. X. Brown. Crown Svo. 128 pp. Second 

 Edition. Price 2s. 6d. net. (Post free. 2s. 9d. home ; 2s. lOd. abroad.) 



Brewing and Botanicals 



HOPS IN THEIR BOTANICAL, AGRICULTURAL 

 AND TECHNICAL ASPECT, AND AS AN ARTICLE 

 OF COMMERCE. By Emmanuel Gross, Professor at 

 the Higher Agricultural College, Tetschen-Liebwerd. Translated 

 from the German. Seventy-eight Illustrations. 340 pp. Demy Svo. 

 Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, lis. home; lis. 6d. abroad.) 



Contents. 



HISTORY OF THE HOP— THE HOP PLAXT-Varieties of the Hop-Classification 

 according to the Period of Ripening— Injuries to Growth— Vegetable Enemies of the Hop: 

 Animal Enemies of the Hop— BeneHcial Insects on Hops— CULTIVATION— The Require- 

 ments of the Hop in Respect of Climate, Soil and Situation— Selection of Variety and 

 Cuttings — Planting a Hop Garden: Drainage: Preparing the Ground; Marking-out for 

 Planting: Planting: Cultivation and Cropping of the Hop Garden in the First Year— Work 

 to be Performed Annually in the Hop Garden : Working the Ground : Cutting : The Xon- 

 cutting System : The Proper Performance of the Operation of Cutting: Proper Se^son 

 for Cutting: Manuring: Training th^ Hop Plant: Principal Types of Frames. Pruning, 

 Croppmg, Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant: Picking, Drying and Bagging— 

 Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of Hops and Hod Gardens — Life of a Hop Garden; 

 Subsequent Cropping— Cost of Production, Yield and Selling Prices. 



Preservation and Storage— Physical and Chemical Structure of the Hop Cone— Judging 

 the Value of Hops. 

 S«:ati.stics nf Production— The Hop Trade— Index. 



INSECTICIDES. FUNGICIDES, AND WEED KILLERS. 



Translated from the French of E. Bourcart. Demv Svo. About 400 

 pages. ' \_ln the press. 



