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Boxes, 3p; Hanging Baskets and Porch Boxes, ip; Decorative 

 Plants, i6p. Then on out-door gardening there are chapters on 

 Bulbs, The Lawn, Plan of the Yard, Annuals, Perennial Borders, 

 Flowering Plants, Wild Flowers, Native Ferns. Directions are 

 given for planting shrubs, trees and vines with suggestions as to 

 the best sorts. A special chapter is given to roses, one to shade 

 trees and one to fruit trees. In a very similar series of chapters 

 the vegetable garden receives treatment in a hundred and ten 

 pages. The book is well illustrated, attractive and well made. 

 The instructions are simple and explicit. Any person of intelli- 

 gence should be able to get results with this book as a guide. 



The Suburban Garden Guide, Parker Thayer Barnes, p. 147, 

 The MacMillan Co., $0.50. 



This is a big, small book. There is more information of just 

 the sort you want in growing things than in most garden guides of 

 more pretentious appearance. The Best Vegetables for the 

 Home Garden, i6p; The Best Flowers, i8p; How and When to 

 Spray, 36p; Fertilizing the Small Garden, 5p; are the sub- 

 divisions of the body of the book. The Appendix is about as 

 extensive and includes a series of tables showing planting times 

 and methods, formulas of sprays and methods of applying and 

 directions for pruning. Throughout material is alphabetically 

 arranged and there are nimierous cross references. In discussing 

 fertilizers directions as to amount to be used are always given in 

 terms not only of the quantity per acre, but also per square yard, 

 an innovation the back yard gardener will appreciate. There is a 

 similar exactness and appreciation of the ordinary home gardener's 

 difficulties at all points in the book. If you garden, this will be a 

 well thumbed book, once possessed. 



An Elementary Study of the Brain, Based on Dissections of the 

 Brain of the Sheep, Eben W. Fiske, p. 132, The MacMillan Co., 

 $1.25. 



Most volumes devoted to the anatomy of the brain are so 

 complete and so technical as to be forbidding to any but the 

 specialist. It is practically impossible to present in popular way 

 any adequate notion of brain structure and the relation of paits. 

 There must be a fairly extensive use of scientific terminology for 

 it only can be sufficiently exact. This book makes the matter as 



