Manual of Vegetable-Garden Insects. Cyrus Richard Crosby and Mortimer 

 Demarest Leonard of The New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University. The Macmillan Co. $2.50. 



Any entomological book of which Professor Cyrus Crosby is the author is 

 sure to be thoroughly scientific, practical, up-to-date and reliable. This 

 volume was written by Professor Crosby and Mr. Leonard, his assistant in 

 laboratory and field work for several years and who is an excellent observer, as 

 well as a practical economic entomologist. The book is all that we might 

 ^pect from these authors. It is clearly written, comprehensive with no 

 padding and gives the last and best advice as to the control of the insect pests 

 of the vegetable garden. 



The injurious insects are treated in groups — each chapter dealing with 

 insects damaging a certain plant. The following is a list of the chapter head- 

 ings with only a few of the insects named. Insects injurious to cabbage and 

 related crops as the cabbage aphis, the turnip aphis and the imported cabbage 

 worm; Pea and Bean Insects as the Pea and Bean weevils, the Bean Ladybird 

 and Bean Thrips; Beet and Spinach Insects as the Spinach leaf-miner and 

 aphis and the Beet leaf hopper; Insects injurious to Cucumber, Squash and 

 Melon; Potato Insects as the Colorado potato beetle and potato aphis; 

 Tomato Insects; Eggplant Insects; Insects injurious to Carrot, Celery, 

 Parsnip and Related Crops as the Black Swallowtail butterflv and the Parsnip 

 leaf-miner; Asparagus Insects; Corn Insects as 'the Corn root-aphis and 

 Stink-bugs; Sweet Potato Insects; Onion Insects, as the onion maggot and 

 thrips; Insects injurious to minor vegetable crops as Rhubarb and Lettuce; 

 Cutworms and army Blister-Befetles; Flea-Beetles and Unclassified Pests as 

 Wireworms and Grasshoppers. The final chapter takes up Insects and 

 Insecticides. 



Old Crow and His Friends. Katharine B. Judson, author of "Old Crow 

 Stories" with illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull. Little, Brown & Co. 

 $1.35 net. 



This author has written attractive stories of Old Crow before and in this new 

 book she offers as fine a collection of children's stories as one could wish for. 

 These are stories which Indians related to their children years ago to the great 

 delight of young and old. The originals are from authentic sources and the 

 author relates in very simple yet clear and forceful language these old magic 

 stories full of life and the great woods and out-of-doors. There are princi])al 

 characters throughout the stories as "Rabbit the leader in all the mischief," 



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