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planting, the caxe of the different kinds of garden crops and finally 

 are given short discussions of the diseases, insects that attack 

 plants and an appendix which gives the tables for planting dates 

 for all garden produce. There are many points of special excel- 

 lence in this book. It is very clearly written. Each chapter 

 is followed by questions which will help the pupil to understand 

 the reasons for things and suggestions of things for them to do 

 and observe that are directly related to the subject matter just 

 discussed. Each chapter begins with a valuable quotation from 

 some author that is both cogent and helpful. It is profusely illustrat- 

 ed with photographs of children carrying on garden work or of 

 subjects directly related to the work and there are also many 

 helpful diagrams. The outstanding characteristic of the book 

 is that by just looking at it the reader is inspired with an over- 

 whelming desire to start gardening at once. 



The Flower Finder — George Lincoln Walton, M.D., Member of 

 the New England Botanical Club. 394 pp. Profusely illustrated. 

 J, B. Lippincott Company. 



This is a new voliime for identifying flowers which combines the 

 advantages of tracing them, out by color and also by structure. It 

 begins with some helpful chapters upon leaves, their arrangement 

 and flowers, their arrangement and parts ; and a short discussion of 

 the prominent flower families. Preceding the chapters on flowers 

 of certain color are given charts that will aid in identifying the 

 flower more readily and which incidentally call attention to the 

 form of the plant. The last chapters are given to the identifica- 

 tion of fruits by color. Each flower and each fruit is illustrated 

 by graphic pen drawings by the author or by photographs or 

 both, and there are several attractive colored plates. The book 

 is bound in flexible covers and is thus especially adapted for field 

 use. It is a beautiful book that will prove most useful to those 

 who wish to know our common flowers. The descriptions are 

 short but tell the chief characteristics of the plant and its habitat. 



