EEVIEV/ OF NEW BOOKS. i 



We have many Horticultural works issued years ago the 

 authors of which are still living, but they have never at- 

 tempted to improve upon the original copy, although the 

 means at their command are abundant ; but either through 

 ignorance or indolence they allow their works to remain 

 imperfect, which is a great loss to the public, and no 

 additional honor to themselves. Mr. Thomas appears to 

 have taken a practical view of this subject, and by con- 

 stantly accumulating facts from his own experience and 

 that of others, he has been enabled to give us the present 

 work, which is the best book on General Fruit Culture that 

 has ever appeared in America. 



American Pomology — Apples. By Dr. John A. Wabder. 

 New York : Orange Judd & Co. 12mo ; 744 pp. $3. 



Many of the readers of this volume will be surprised at 

 the amount of matter here brought together relative to one 

 of our most common fruits. But every one who has given 

 the subject any particular attention is aware that the Apple 

 has been in cultivation from the earliest times of which we 

 have any reliable record, and not only has it been treated 

 of in scores of volumes, but that the different varieties of 

 a single species have become really innumerable. 



With this fact before us, we may readily perceive how 

 abundant are the materials from which not only one 

 volume of seven hundred pages might be compiled, but 

 seven or seventy times that number. 



It is quite probable that there was a time when it might 

 have been necessary to collect all the sayings and doings of 

 different individuals upon a specified subject, to enable the 

 student to become passably conversant with it. But those 



