8 RECORD OF HORTICULTURE. 



days are rapidly passing away, and the demand at the 

 present time is for thorough but condensed treatises upon all 

 scientific subjects. In Pomology, the mass of materials has 

 become so great, that it requires no inconsiderable skill to 

 determine which is really worthy of preservation. Dr. 

 Warder has certainly treated the subject of Apples most 

 thoroughly, and no one will have cause to complain of 

 brevity in the author, for all the different ramifications 

 which a fertile brain would be likely to discover are 

 minutely traced to their source. Errors there are, as 

 might be expected in so elaborate a work, but the num- 

 ber is too few to materially detract from the value of th^ 

 whole. We welcome this Avork as a valuable contribution 

 to American Horticulture. 



Beet Root Sugar, and Cultivation of the Beet. By E. B. Grant. 

 Boston, Mass. : Lee & Sliepard. 12mo ; lj)8 pp. $1. 



The author of this work is entitled to the thanks of the 

 public for calling their attention to a source of wealth 

 which has heretofore attracted little or no thought on the 

 part of the American people. That beet-root sugar can be 

 made as cheaply in this country as elsewhere, there is scarce- 

 ly a doubt, and that the time will soon come when it will 

 be an article of commerce the same as cane sugar, is a 

 thing devoutly to be wished. This little volume of Mr. 

 Grant gives a complete history of the discovery and pro- 

 gress of beet-sugar manufacture, and no one can read it 

 without being impressed with the value of the statistics 

 given, as well as the practical and thorough elucidation of 

 the subject. 



France at the present time depends almost entirely upon 



