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author. The facts are given and the reader allowed to select 

 and decide for himself. All points upon which the grower is 

 likely to desire information, however, seem adequately covered 

 and the commercial man will no doubt find much valuable 

 material in it. We note that the author uses order in place of 

 family* in his classification, though this usage has long been 

 abandoned by botanists. The book contains upward of 450 

 pages and costs $1.75. 



The wide-spread interest in apple growing has called forth 

 a book on the subject from the pen of A. E. Wilkinson. In 

 "The Apple," published by Ginn & Co., he has brought together 

 nearly 500 pages on all phases of growing, storing and market- 

 ing this king of northern table fruits. The wide territory over 

 which the apple is grown seems to have made it impossible to 

 give directions that would apply equally well to cultivation in 

 New York and New England as well as in the irrigated lands 

 of the Northwest, but the methods in vogue in the various 

 regions are fully described. Though much of the book is of 

 necessity a compilation, the result is a very useful volume on 

 orchard management. In view of the great number of school 

 teachers and others of limited means who have recently invested 

 in orchards in the Northwest, it is a surprise to learn that New 

 York State still leads in apple production. In 1913 this State 

 produced nearly 7,000,000 barrels of apples, a crop greater by 

 more than 2,000,000 barrels than that produced by the entire 

 Northwest, including California, Colorado, and Utah. "The 

 Apple" is the latest volume in the Country Life Education 

 Series of Ginn & Co. and costs $2.50. 



Another of the Nature Notebook Series edited by Mrs. 

 Anna Botsford Comstock has appeared. This time it is a book 

 for recording notes on plants. In this the first dozen pages are 

 devoted to a description of plant parts and then follow sets of 

 questions on 34 points about the plant upon which notes are to 

 be made. It is safe to say that anybody who carefully answers 



