THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
149 
1 ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF BRITISH FUNGI, 
| By , F.G.S. 
E .Thisisa ше and remarkable book of 238 page 
. of letterpress, and sixty-four pages of ert) чы 
"ниги numerous defects the book has a 
refers to the Mistleto, a iita says, ен ipe ever saw 
on 
on that tree.” He then d he ано that the 
s!) pped 
. Bull's "Vegetal Beefsteak 4 - stulina he- 
ving large 
Ene of mms the author ге а желери name 
ery 
too short for mastering this new and appalling army 
or iier а aids ie and “ “ wrinkle-twigs.’ 
Possibly some crabbed and disagreeable old myco- 
logis will still find a little too much rhetoric in this 
елан dedicated 
to saints. ly not a specialty of ours, 
but there are here thirteen enumerated ; one is St. 
Judas Iscariot, a shady Po MD elbowing our 
own St. George. Сесіі 
and made a saint on p. ра and t 
close ally of the Grizette.” Notwithstanding our 
good natured and playful references, we do not think 
chapter in the ia vel is WAR 
1 
ne great virtue, for he is all the timetelling 
the reader what he thinks; he is not constant tly 
boring him with what he thinks other grp: think. 
As y the reprinted n we do not like 
them t all; how it happens en 8 ү и 
cuts е dragged by nii gue inii all sorts of books 
our own enn pa even the key 
sheets (as engraved at our own expense for the 
Journal of Botany) are t once more before us, 
We have the original blocks now by us—Dr. Cooke 
returned them after he had used them. We have 
lent dg to no one else. Fungus-eaters evidently 
have no rights. Some of Dr. Winter's illustrations 
in Miche Mods Kryptogamen Flora are copies from 
our originals i in the British Museum, but Dr. Winter 
says ‘ Cooke.” We say, eei * not Cooke," 
if Winter has copied from Cooke, e first, in every 
case but with due маанаг copied from 
us. But French and German mycologists are often 
in a fog 
Тһе Book before us is confined to a арче of 
the edible and poisonous species of the lar, 
d, so that forty or 
fifty of the plates may be considered without value, 
for we do not hesitate to say that forty or fifty plates 
of Dr. Cooke's little cuts of microscopic fungi, drawn 
to all sorts of scales, and sometimes only showing | а 
d in а book like th 
d make very bad padding. The dni 
have, however, been carefully set up, for Cenococcum, 
on pl. xv. (most provokingly printed upside-down by 
Dr. Cooke's printers) is here very carefully paw n set 
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up upside-down. Cystopus cubicus, on pl. xxxi., is 
also upside-down, and LAE 4 on pl. xxviii. is мача 
only a leaf hair, and not a fungus at all. Notwith- 
standing the defects beers above, there is much 
in the book of both interest and value, and we shall 
keep it as a pu book with others more pre- 
tentious. W. G 
TITHES; THEIR TORY. USE, AND FUTURE. By 
тей. (James Clarke & Co. 
) 
- 
Fleet "к; 1 
The agricultural reformer who 
of Suffolk, and 
r a 
could have been devised 
n and 
utation Act—an admirable reform we 
pn it then, but quite insufficient now, it seems. 
Everett writes from the point of view of a 
knowledge than some persons in t 
possess. He not propose confisca 
does not suggest that the abolition of tithes w. 
put just so much money in the pockets of those who 
pay them, The best parts of the pamphlet seem to 
us to be the history, and the facts relating to the 
present amount of the rent-charges payable 
of tithes, 
with consent of the bishop, the 
ar 885), when iament at 
Winchester first “ endowed the ten English Church 
with the tithes of all lands and of other oods and 
chattels. 
But let us come to the facts of the year 1882, 
when the amount of the rent-charges — in lieu 
of tithes amounted to the following sums 
£378,987 
.. 2,112,708 
.. 766,238 
To kam crest and lessees 
ochial Hamer 
чега proprietors ... za - 
бом m. &e. € ei .. 190,056 
£1,053,983 
the ЯЕ tithes on Hops and fruit, iin in 
Sus Kent, yielding £50,000 annually. 
Altogether ке, total amount is about £5,000,000 
ae shows in an appendix the amount of 
and W. 
subject which i ha sometimes discussed with more heat 
than judgmen 
VEGETABLES, 
: ITS CULTURE AND Use, — Rampion is 
e used cooked or as 
that may be urged against its cultivation is, that 
numerous divisions spring from the rootstock, which 
miake it difficult to prepare for the table, and spoil 
its appearance. Bad cultivation is the chief cause of 
this defect, from ча Carrots, Parsnips, and Beet, 
which now h fine long roots, were very 
liable, Mee didit oed unsparing selection of 
seed, and preparation of gro 
great pret eic ion 
similar course of selection to insure use uce. 
By way of illustrating both the difficulty and the 
remedy connected with ill-shaped roots, bu 
refer to Salsify as grown a few years ago, w 
variably formed branched roots, very different from 
the clean straight roots of to-day. To grow Ram- 
pion мыры the знах should be on — light, 
pom ee ; bu as been 
When the 
seedlings are well through the ground, thin them out 
to not less than 4 inches apart. 
About three weeks after the bed 
thorough soaking with water, and the crop will тд 
the layer of manure the plants cannot well have too 
