NEW BOOKS. 7 



we are benefited. The two classes of writers most to be 

 feared are those who have much to say theoretically, but 

 nothing practically, and those who have nothing of their 

 own to say, either theoretically or practically, but think it 

 their duty or privilege to make a book if they can get a 

 publisher to pay them for that which they purloin from 

 others. 



We have a good example of the latter class in a book 

 lately issued by Lee & Shepard, of Boston, which bears 

 the very inappropriate title of "Practical and Scientific 

 Fruit Culture," by Charles R. Baker, of the Dorchester 

 Nurseries. The author or compiler of this work evidently 

 thought that having walked in the shadow of a great 

 man's umbrella he was entitled to a portion of his mantle. 

 The work is but little more than a compilation of essays 

 and extracts from various authors, with the list of fruits 

 adopted by the American Pomological Society. The 

 greater portion of the matter collected in this work is val- 

 uable and familiar to reading men, but what right Mr. 

 Baker has to use the immense labors of others, to the ex- 

 tent which has been done in this work, is a question that 

 the good public will decide. Mr. Baker for once has made 

 a great mistake, which he should rectify so soon as he has 

 had sufficient experience to give him the practical informa- 

 tion necessary to enable him to write a work of his own. 



Cultivation oi the Grape. By W. C. Strong. Boston : Tilton 

 & Co. 12mo. ; 355 pp ; muslin, $3 00. 



Mr. Strong begins with Adam, and leads us along the 



misty way down to the i)resent time. He makes copious 



