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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 1909 



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Everybody's Magazine, $1.50 a 

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Garden Magazine — Farming, 

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Hampton's Magazine, $1.50 a 

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The Florist's Bibliography. By C. Harman Payne. 



William Wesley & Son, London, 1908; pp. 80. 

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An invaluable work that should be in every 

 reference library. It includes everything of impor- 

 tance, save the rose, which has a bibliography of 

 its own. Every collector of "florists' flowers" will 

 undoubtedly be deeply interested in this volume. 



Dry Farming. By William Macdonald, Ph.D. 

 The Century Company, New York, 1909; pp. 290, 

 photographically illustrated. Price $1.20 net. 



Dry farming is a mighty important and inter- 

 esting subject. It is one of the romantic chapters 

 in the progress of man, for it has made the desert 

 blossom like the rose. Dr. Macdonald is well 

 fitted to write on this subject because of his wide 

 travels and experience in America, Africa, and else- 

 where. His book has nothing of the land-boomer in 

 it, and is both scholarly and practical. 



The Training of Farmers. By L. H. Bailey. 



The Century Company, New York, 1909; pp. 263, 

 no illustrations. Price $1.00 net. 



A series of essays, some of which have appeared 

 in the Century Magazine. Part I. is devoted to the 

 means of training farmers; Part II. deals with the 

 school and the college in relation to farm training. 

 Some of the subjects are: "Why Do Boys Leave the 

 Farm?," "Why Some Boys and Girls Take to 

 Farming?," "College Men as Farm Managers," 

 "The Reading Habit," "The Insufficiencies in 

 Country Life," and "Health Conditions in the 

 Open Country." 



How to Cook Vegetables. By Olive Green. 



G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1909: 644; pp. 

 no pictures. One of Putnam's Homemaker Series, 

 edited and compiled by Olive Green. Price, 

 $1.00 net. 



A book of recipes on an heroic scale; e. g., 336 

 ways to cook potatoes. One wishes that some of the 

 most elaborate recipes had been discarded to make 

 room for information about the lesser common 

 vegetables. There are only 27 of the commonest 

 vegetables in this book, whereas American seeds- 

 men offer at least 74 different kinds. The author 

 includes macaroni, noodles, hominy, sphagetti 

 and chestnuts, which "may not be vegetables 

 but ought to be, since in serving, they take the 

 place of vegetables." She also gives 51 sauces 

 for vegetables. The arrangement is alphabetical 

 and there is also a fair index. 



That Rock Garden of Ours. By F. Edward 



Hulme. George W. Jacobs & Co., Philadelphia, 

 1909; pp. 328; 50 colored illustrations from drawings 

 by the author. Price, $3.00 net. 



We regret that this book is so much like another 

 book by the same author, viz.: "Familiar Swiss 

 Flowers." True, the list of plants is somewhat 

 different, but the style of illustration is the same. 

 The title leads one to expect garden views, but these 

 are only plant portraits arranged without any 

 system. And it is tiresome to see 100 unrelated 

 flowers in pairs or triplets on the same plate. 

 The descriptions are good, but the text follows no 

 system and the cultural part is almost nil. English 

 amateurs never tire of rehashing Gerarde's Herball, 

 when they would improve us so much more if 

 they would depict the most beautiful garden effects 

 and tell us how to get them. We have plenty of 

 books that picture the flowers themselves. 



