1898] CURRENT LITERATURE 373 
“This book understands the garden to be that part of the premises which 
sdevoted to ornament, and to the growing of vegetables and fruits either 
ithe home consumption or for market. The garden is, therefore, an ill- 
ieined demesne; but the reader must not make the mistake of defining it by 
dimensions, for one may have a garden ina flower pot or on a thousand acres. 
nother words, this book believes that every bit of land which is not used for 
uildings, walks, drives, and fences, should be planted. What we shall 
plant—whether sward, lilacs, thistles, cabbages, pears, chrysanthemums, or 
polatoes— we shall talk about as we proceed.” 
And talk about it the author does, in the most interesting and attractive 
syle, bringing forth out of the treasures of his experience and observation 
things newand old. In a hundred pages and more of general advice he tells 
ie things which the novice most needs to know, and, if we mistake not, 
tany things which the professional gardener would be profited by knowing. 
Then follows a discussion of the principles of landscape art as they apply to 
-flanting city yards, suburban grounds or rural estates. A third section is 
devoted to suggestions in regard to ornamental planting; a fourth to the fruit 
plantation, and another to the vegetable garden. In fact there is no one who 
ms the land on which he lives who would not find in this book something 
~ ofprofit and miterest.—_C. R. B. 
eitvernment Among the points of scientific intere 
2 Atis noted that Bermuda lilies grown in Jamaica s 
he with no resting period of any sort. 
e 81 no systematic survey is in progress, S 
as, and forty-four species of mosses were co 
oe us members of the staff.—D. T. McDouGAat- 
even new species of 
llected during the 
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NOTES FOR STUDENTS: 
Hitcucock AND CLOTHIER have made a report upow ue aa 
Propagation of the perennial weeds of Kansas.’ In it is containe 
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are 
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aa ott Garden-making : suggestions for the utilizing of home ag 
laa Taft, F. A. Waugh, and Ernest Walker. 12mo0., PP: viii 417,785 
ork: The Macmillan Co., 1898. 
OR $1. = 
ull. 76, Feb, 1898, Experiment Station of the Kansas State Agricultural College 
