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Freeman's Minnesota Plant Diseases.^ — Simplicity, attractive- 

 ness, and full illustration are amon^ the qualities of an ideal publica- 

 tion on agricultural science if it is to reach the people without the 

 intervention of a middle-man. These qualities are possessed by a 

 recent book on the diseases of plants prepared bv Professor Freciiiau 

 under the direction of the Geological and Natural History Survt\v ot 

 Minnesota, — a State which spends large sums annually on the stuil\- 

 of its native resources and limitations, but the Agricultural Exjxm i- 



pathologist. The treatment falls under three general heads: luiii:i 

 and their life history; economic applications; and diseases of plants. 

 The book is likely to realize its author's hope of making the intellig(Mit 

 farmer who may read it an intelligent observer and assistant to the 

 expert investigator. 



W. T. 



Ward's Flowers of English Trees and Shrubs.^— This \olume, 

 the third in the author's work on trees, is devoted to a stufiy of the 



essentially a book tor tlic lavinnn. It is to he rccnniiiKMuli-d tor its 

 The first part of the honk is ticiicnil niid is dcvotcil lo a >tu(l\ ot 



