MONOGRAPH ON 



FUNGOID PESTS 



- OF — 



CULTIVATED PLANTS 



BY 



M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D., V.M.H., A.L.S. 



8vo. 278 pp., 24 Coloured Plates (Eoyal Horticultural Society, Vincent 

 Square. Westminster), Half-calf, 6s. net. 



Under the above title the Eoyal Horticultural Society has just published 

 an invaluable volume, the primary object of which is "to interest and instruct 

 the cultivator in the simplest and most practical manner ... by grouping the 

 pests together according to the nature of their hosts, rather than by following 

 any purely scientific and systematic classification, which would assume con- 

 siderable previous knowledge, and would be better left in charge of an expert." 



As implied by the title, the pests of cultivated plants alone are dwelt with, 

 under the following headings: — 'Pests of the Flower Garden," "Pests of 

 Garden Vegetables," "Pests of the Orchard and Fruit Garden," "Pests of the 

 Vinery and Stove," " Pests of the Ornamental Shrubbery," " Pests of Forest 

 Trees," " Pests of Field Crops." Then follows a chapter on " Fungicides," 

 which explains very clearly how to make the different washes and sprays, and 

 also gives the proportions in which the various ingredients should be used. 



Special attention is directed to the Coloured Plates, which illustrate no 

 fewer than 357 different fungoid diseases to which cultivated plants are liable ; 

 and there are also 23 other Illustrations in Black and White in the text. 



" No one whose plants are subject to fungoid attacks — and whose are not ? 

 —should be without this book ; for not only can they by its use indentify the 

 disease at once, but they are also told both how to treat it and overcome it." 



Mr. G. Massee, F.L.S., V.M.H., the distinguished mycologist at Kew, in 

 reviewing this work, speaks thus of it : " The book is printed on good paper, 

 and is in every sense a credit to its author and to the Koyal Horticultural 

 Society under whose auspices it has appeared." 



The Volume, as published, is half -bound in calf, as it was considered 

 probable that it would form the text-book on the subject for very many years 

 to come ; and it thus makes an admirable school prize or gift to a gardener or 

 student of nature. 



TO BE HAD OF THE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



VINCENT SQUARE, LONDON, S.W. 

 Price 6s. post free. 



R.H.S. Advertisement Office :-VINCENT SQUARE, WESTMINSTER, S.W 



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