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garding the qualities of the wood, its uses and the hke. \\^e 

 regret to see a scientist of Prof. Schaffner's attainments adher- 

 ing to the absurd '"American Code" in matters of nomenclature. 

 This, in the reviewers' opinion is the greatest defect in the 

 book. A disposition is also shown to put forth the term 

 ovular}' in place of the better known and well established word 

 ovary. The hook is published by R. G. Adams & Co., Colum- 

 bus. Ohio, at $1.25. 



The demand for practical courses in agriculture for 

 schools has led to the production of many text-books of vary- 

 ing grades of excellence, bur one that deser^-es a prominent 

 Dlace is the volume by D. D, ^layne and K. L. Hatch entitled 

 "High School Agriculture."" The book begins, as all such 

 books should, with a discussion of the chemistry of plants and 

 the soil, and takes up next agricultural botany and economic 

 ^'an:^ and the insects and diseases that trouble them and ends 

 v. ::!: about a hundred pages devoted to farm animals and farm 

 management. The book is especially full regarding the varie- 

 ties of ves-ctr/'T- and other farm crops but seems lacking in 

 cultural direcii'ins. especially those of a fundamental nature, 

 for crops in general. There is also lacking a discussion of 

 decorative planting, and plant breeding, two subjects that arf 

 so prominent in work with plants today that their omission is 

 noticeable. The book is published by The American Book 

 Company. Xev: York. 



^larket and truck gardening, as distinguished from the 

 growing of the more general farm crops, has thus far received 

 little attention at the hands of the makers of books on agri- 

 culture, and yet. some of the truck gardener's single crops ex- 

 ceed in value the entire fruit crop of the United States includ- 

 ing the citrus fruits, apples, peaches and prunes, as well as 

 fruits of lesser importance. Practically the only comprehensive 

 treatise on this phase of crop production is found in T. C. 

 Corbett's '"'Garden Farming" which forms a new volume in the 



