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Notices of Books. 



[Feb., 



i A book about wheat must have a horde of critics : but the general 

 agricultural reader will find collected here what he must seek in vain in any 

 other single volume in English. 



Practical Gardening for Pleasure and Profit.— (The Educational 

 Book Company Ltd., 17 New Bridge Street, London, E.C. Price £4 5s. art 

 vellum, or £5 14s. art canvas, net, for six volumes.) The first volume of this 

 work deals with gardening practice ; with gardens suitable for houses in 

 various situations in country, town and suburb: with school gardens, etc. 

 The second treats almost exclusively of vegetable crops, bat includes much 

 useful information concerning allotments. In the third volume fruit growing, 

 as it should be practised in small gardens, is dealt with in a way which will 

 commend itself to most growers of fruit for domestic purposes. In the fourth 

 volume the subject of gardening under glass is considered at length, and a 

 useful encyclopaedia of indoor plants has been included. The fifth and sixth 

 volumes deal with the growing of flowers, a subject which interests almost 

 every section of the community. 



In the past few years an immense development has taken place in practical 

 gardening and horticulture generally, and there was a need for a comprehensive 

 work of this nature, and "Practical Gardening " will be much appreciated. 



This work, which has been edited by Mr. Walter P. Wright, the well-known 

 writer on gardening subjects, who for a long time has been the Horticultural 

 Superintendent in Kent, has been presented in a simple and interesting style. 

 Mr. Wright has been fortunate in securing other well-known horticulturists to 

 contribute to sections of the work in which they possessed expert knowledge. 

 The scientific and practical value of the work has been ^increased by the 

 addition of articles from authorities such as Sir Harry Veitch, Messrs. Edwin 

 Beckett, M. C. All wood, W. Cuthbertson, Joseph Cheal, and E . W. Wallace, all 

 well-known practical horticultural men ; together with contributions on 

 scientific subjects from such reliable writers as Dr. E. J. Russell, Mr. F. J. 

 Chittenden, and others. 



The presentation of the book is exceedingly good, and it is abundantly 

 illustrated with most excellent drawings and photographs, some of which are 

 coloured. The inclusion of these makes it more easily understood, and adds 

 to the attractiveness of the whole work, which is a valuable addition to 

 horticultural literature. H.V.T. 



The Swedish Agricultural Labourer.— (Published by order of 

 the Swedish Government's delegation for International Collaboration in Social 

 Politics, Stockholm, 1921.) The prospect of an international discussion on 

 the economic conditions of agricultural labour in Europe led the Swedish 

 Government to issue this monograph, which gives much interesting and 

 valuable information regarding a subject that is little known to English 

 students. Of the eleven short chapters only one, the first, is devoted to 

 general agriculture, and even this is prepared with the object of elucidating 

 the origin and causes of the conditions which are subsequently described. 

 The remaining chapters deal with such questions as the number and distribu- 

 tion of agricultural labourers in Sweden, their wages, hours of work, housing 

 and right of combination, the labour of women and children, insurance 

 against old age, sickness and accident, technical instruction and land settlement. 

 English readers will perhaps be most impressed by the primitive and almost 



