RECORD OF HORTICULTURE. 



I. 



REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. 



American Horticultural Annual. A Year Book of Horticultural 

 Progress, etc. Illustrated. New York: Orange Judd & Co. 

 12mo ; 152 pp. ; muslin, 75 cents. 



There is a large amount of valuable information given 

 in this volume. Besides many useful hints and sugges- 

 tions, there are several essays that are well worthy of a 

 careful perusal. The one on Pears, by P. Barry, is particu- 

 larly valuable to those who are desirous of knowing which 

 are the best of the new varieties. The notes on Grapes are 

 very full and complete. There is also an excellent article 

 on New Roses, by John Saul ; one on Bedding Plants, by 

 Peter Henderson ; another, on Gladiolus, by George Such ; 

 these are particularly noteworthy. Mr. Thomas Meehan's 

 " Notes on.the Rarer Evergreens" is doubly interesting from 

 the fact, that the author not only shows the importance of 

 planting evergreen trees for the purpose of oniamentation, 

 but that if planted abundantly, they will increase the tem- 

 perature of the immediate locality, and very much lessen 

 the rigors of our cold Avinters. In other words, evergreens 

 give off heat, even in cold weather, and thereby increase 

 the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. If our 

 land-owners could be made to believe this, they would have 

 another incentive for planting evergreen trees extensively. 



