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Cheap English Books on Ama- 

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ONE of the wonders of the world is that 

 the English publishers can get out 

 books on gardening bound in an attractive 

 and durable manner, containing 150 pages 

 and 100 pictures, which sell for a shilling in 

 England and thirty-seven cents in America. 

 For example, "Pictorial Practical Vegetable 

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 on Fruit Growing, Greenhouse Manage- 

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 Chrysanthemum Culture, by Walter P. 

 Wright (Cassell & Co., London and New 

 York. 4I x 7§ inches). We have nothing like 

 them in America, nor like the penny weeklies 

 devoted to gardening. Such things are pos- 

 sible only among a race of gardeners. Judged 

 by these two standards, American horticulture 

 is still in the dark ages. 



Yet it is commonly said that there is no 

 inducement for an American to buy an 

 English book on gardening. There isn't 

 for the beginner; but there is for the expert. 

 The beginner doesn't know how to allow for 

 the differences due to climate; the expert 

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 For example, what American country gentle- 

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 Anyone who wants to train fruits against a 

 wall after the European fashion must either 

 have a European gardener or get some little 

 book like Wright's and do the work himself. 

 In greenhouse management climatic differ- 

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 Magazine will never be happy until this 

 country is filled with little private greenhouses 

 as England is. 



It is easy enough to say that our climate 

 is radically different from that of Europe; 

 that we have a different set of varieties, tools 

 and insects; that we are beginning to make 

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 are specially interested in any particular 



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