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The formation of soils, their nature, variation, and management, receive 

 due attention. Soil water, tillage, drainage, and irrigation occupy over 200 

 pages. General and special manures with green manuring occupy several 

 chapters. English readers will appreciate the fact that the book is nearly 

 as well adapted to our soils and crops as to those of America. We do not 

 say that every statement is unimpeachable, but we have seldom, if ever, 

 read a work of this kind with such satisfaction and assurance that the 

 information is sound, concisely and lucidly presented. The gardener or 

 farmer who reads this book and understands it will know a great deal 

 more about the subject than is known by the majority of cultivators. 



A book for every library in which it may be justly placed. It is also 

 admirably adapted for presentation as a prize or otherwise. There should 

 be no need for further comment, except to advise every one to get it. 



The printing is excellent and the plates charming. 



JUNIPERUS SABINA. 



From time to time Fellows are so good as to send us photographs of 

 noteworthy specimens of plants, and here we are able, through the 

 kindness of G. Carter, Esq., F.R.H.S., to give a picture of a striking 

 specimen of the well-known and beautiful Savin, Juniperus Sabina. The 

 bush is growing in the gardens of Stourton Court, Stourbridge, the 

 residence of Handle Matthews, Esq., and occupies an isolated position 

 on the edge of the lawn close to a descent of six feet. It forms a 

 striking object in the landscape, standing as it does at the head of 

 a broad valley, which rises on the opposite side to the " Kniver Edge," 

 that famous resort of trippers. The bush measures six feet in height, 

 nineteen feet in length by fifteen feet six inches in width, and fifty- 

 seven feet six inches in circumference. It owes much of its striking 

 appearance to the " hundreds of curly points, somewhat like tongues of 

 flame," that rise above the mass of the bush. The soil in which the bush 

 is growing overlies the Old Red Sandstone, and the position is entirely 

 open to the west and somewhat to the south, but well protected on the 

 north and east by the garden wall and the house. 



