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where spring manuring may give better results than too slavish an 

 adherence to a precedent which may be good in other districts. It is 

 however fair to say that the laying down of hard and fast rules is not 

 generally a fault of this book. 



Taken all round it is a readable little book, and its good illustra- 

 tions and moderate price should make it popular. 



" The Kitchen Garden and the Cook. An Alphabetical Guide 

 to the Cultivation of Vegetables, with Recipes for Cooking Them." 

 Collected and arranged by Cecilia Maria Pearse. 8vo., 284 pp. 

 (Smith, Elder, London, 1913.) 5s. net. 



The chapters dealing with the cultivation of vegetables and the 

 recipes for their use naturally take up the major portion of this book. 

 There is an excellent appendix on successional cropping in small 

 gardens and on little-known vegetables. It will interest many to 

 see what a number of different modes there are of cooking and serving 

 vegetables, and the book should find a hearty welcome in every 

 household where vegetables are appreciated. We should have liked 

 to see more reference to pickled vegetables and chutneys, as, for 

 instance, Capsicums and Chillies, which are only mentioned briefly in the 

 appendix, and then only for cooking. Yet we know many who greatly 

 enjoy pickled Capsicums, and the same applies to Cauliflower, &c. 

 Salads are admirably treated upon, and the recipes are well worth 

 studying. In fact, the book supplies a long-felt want. The contents 

 are in alphabetical order, and clearly and boldly printed. 



" Mushroom Culture." By W. Dyke. Obi. 8vo. 88 pp. (Lock- 

 wood Press, London, 1913.) is. net. 



A capital little brochure in paper covers, written by a practical 

 man who has been growing this esteemed article of diet for twenty-five 

 years. It fully describes all the essential details of cultivation both 

 inside and out for commercial purposes, giving full particulars of 

 all costs, prices, markets, pests, diseases, &c. There is a table of 

 contents and a good index at the commencement of the book. 



" The Production and Utilization of Scots Pine in Great Britain." 

 Part 1, Production No. x. Sample Plots at Woburn. By E. Russell 

 Burdon, M.A., and A. P. Long, B.A. 8vo., 46 pp. (Cambridge Uni- 

 versity Press, 1913.) is. 6d. net. 



This is an interesting inquiry, though it may be well to bear in 

 mind that already much has been done in the same direction, as reference 

 to the Transactions of " The Highland and Agricultural Society of 

 Scotland," " Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society," and the pages 

 of " Woods and Forests " will show. It would appear, however, that 

 in the " Scope of the Inquiry " one of the most essential and important 

 points has been overlooked, viz. : an investigation into (1) whether 

 in raising young trees for purely economic purposes home or foreign 



