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on the soil and situation for which the plants are most adapted. Altogether 

 we can commend this work of Mr. Pink's. 



" Pictorial Practical Gardening." By Walter P. Wright. 8vo., 157 

 pp. (Cassell, London.) Is., cloth Is. 6d. 



This is an excellent book teeming with sound practical information 

 that is most valuable for the amateur gardener, and the professional 

 gardener may learn some very useful lessons from its pages. Very good 

 lists of flowers, fruits, and vegetables to grow on nearly all kinds of soil 

 are given. Modes of propagation, the best means of combating insect 

 foes and fungi, heating, garden tools, formation of gardens, &c. are 

 all dealt with clearly. The book is well indexed and clearly printed. 



" Pictorial Practical Vegetable Growing." By Walter P. Wright.. 

 8vo., 152 pp. (Cassell, London.) Is., cloth Is. 6d. 



A valuable treatise of handy size, containing a fund of excellent 

 advice in a very concise form. The instructions on how to crop a garden 

 or allotment varying in size up to one acre are very good, and the chapters 

 on successional cropping, how to till the soil, manuring, appliances, 

 diseases and insect pests, varieties of vegetables to grow, and the 

 cultural information are most reliable, and will prove very serviceable to 

 small garden owners. 



"Pictorial Practical Fruit-growing." By Walter P. Wright. 8vo., 

 152 pp. (Cassell, London.) Is., cloth Is. Qd. 



Another of Mr. Wright's charming little books dealing with fruit- 

 growing for the amateur in all its phases. The chapter on the A B C of 

 pruning is specially useful, as it explains briefly but clearly the main 

 objects to be aimed at in pruning all kinds of trees and bushes. The 

 selection of varieties to grow is a good one, but we should exclude New 

 Hawthornden from the list of Apples, for though the fruit is large, and 

 the tree a great bearer, we have always found it one of the most difficult 

 cookers. Again, in the list of Pears (12) of fine flavour we should sub- 

 stitute 1 Louise Bonne of Jersey ' and ' Beurre Hardy ' for ' Knight's 

 Monarch ' and ' Marechal de la Cour.' However, this may be a matter 

 of opinion, and we have nothing but praise for this useful little book. 



Forestry in the United Kingdom." By W. Schlich, Ph. D., &c. 8vo., 

 71 pp. (Bradbury, Agnew, London.) 2s. net. 



Within the pages of this little book will be found a great amount of 

 information, useful alike to the forester and owner of woodlands. The 

 contents of several chapters, however, savouring too much of Continental 

 usage, do not appeal to the British student. 



Kegarding the financial results to be obtained by afforesting mountain 

 and heath lands, we have not met with the "great difficulties " brought 

 forward by Dr. Schlich at page 39. Perhaps he is not aware that on 

 several estates in this country the expenses connected with planting and 

 tending the woods have been carefully recorded, and, as some of these 

 plantations were formed upwards of sixty years ago, a very fair 



