Written prom Practical Experience.— Perhaps 

 no book is so urgently needed by fruit growers at the 

 present time as one giving clear and concise directions 

 for controling the numerous fungus diseases that prey 

 upon our fruit trees and plants. In Prof. Scribner's 

 little work, we have a most admirable treatise for the 

 diseases which it takes up. The book is well printed, 

 upon good paper, and the ilustrations are especially 

 flne. The life histories of the different fungi treated 

 are given in clear and concise terms, followed by di- 

 rections for preventing or controling their ravages. 

 One element which gives this book a peculiar value (s 

 the fact that its author writes from abundant practical 

 experience in the treatment of the diseases which he 

 discusses. No other person in this country has done 

 so much in the field of grape diseases as Prof. Scrib- 

 ner, and hence no other person is so well qualified to 

 write such a book. One feels a satisfaction in reading 

 it from the knowledge that the statements it contains 

 are not compilations but are based upon careful ex- 

 periments, very many of which were conducted un- 

 der the author's immediate supervision. The book 

 makes no pretense of being a complete treatise upon 

 injurious fungi. It is confined to those that attack 

 fruits and of these some, as the flreblight of the pear 

 and the rust of the strawberry, are not considered. 

 But it Is safe to say that no book heretofore published 

 in this country gives so much useful Informarion upon 

 fungus diseases. It is to be commended to al! fruit 

 growers as a most valuable handbook.— E. S. Goff, 

 Frofessorof Horticulture, Univeri^itif of Wisconsin. 



Full of the Soundest Information. -Scribner's 

 "Fungus Diseases of the Grape and Other Plants" is a 

 most valuable addition to every day horticultural lit- 

 erature. It is a work full of the soundest information 

 presented in such a simple and concise manner as to be 

 easily understood. The illustrations are very good 

 and the descriptions of them are to the point. Prof. 

 Scribner has reduced his micromillimeters and his 

 other meters to parts of inches, which is right, as there 

 are but few that can carry foreign measurements in 

 their heads, and others do hot know them. I hope this 

 Is the beginning of a series of books on the subject 

 which shall apply to all branches of horticulture. The 

 florists of America will hall with delight a book that 

 shall give them as much information about fungus on 

 roses, violets and carnations as does this volume on 

 grapes, plums and cherries.— John Thorpe. 



OF GREAT Value to Every Horticulturist.- Copy 

 of "Diseases of the Grape andOther Plants'" duly receiv- 

 ed. I desire especially to congratulate you on the publi- 

 cation of this very useful work In book form. It cannot 

 fall to be of great value to every horticulturist by show- 

 ing him how to combat the fungoid diseases of his vines 

 and trees, and the mechanical work on the book com- 

 pares favorably with the work of the best New York 

 publishing houses.— C. C Georgeson, Professor of 

 Aiiriculture^ Kansaa Aoricvl iiral Colleae, 



