SuReeeN! LITERATURE. 
BOOK REVIEWS. 
Plant pathology from a new standpoint. 
A RECENT work by Professor H. Marshall Ward" places the subject of 
plant diseases in a new light that must prove very helpful and suggestive to 
students, as well as to cultivators who are able to read the work understand- 
ingly. If every one interested in the cultivation of plants were fairly well 
informed regarding vegetable physiology and pathology, the work could be 
said to be a popular treatise, for it is written from the standpoint of the 
plant and the plant grower, and not, as is usual, from that of the fungus or 
_ other disease agent and the mycologist. Moreover, technical terms are 
_ employed only where English equivalents are not available, or where 
obscurity and prolixity are to be avoided. 
_ The work is not a manual of vegetable therapeutics, as may be judged 
from. the fact - only ten pages are devoted to remedies; and it is not a 
logical e,as it does not describe fungi, but when mentioning them 
er already knows them. However, it treats of the gen- 
ersistent ignorance and mis- 
first place among the sciences — 
Ha eee than upon the plant itself. ia 
errors are rapidly being corrected through the 
Stations and and Agricultural Colleges, and we have 
—_ ne errors, — the 
fone disease, oe ad . 
the factors of 2 an — oe 
uture of plant food, that con- 
the attention of the cultivator aa 
