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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



" The Book of the Rose." By the Rev. A. Foster Melliar, M.A. 

 (Macmillan, London.) 6s. 8vo. 



A second and enlarged edition of Mr. Foster Melliar's well-known and 

 delightful " Book of the Rose." No Rose grower should be without it, for 

 it is not only charmingly written and a pleasure simply to read, but it 

 gives full particulars on all Rose subjects, treating of all the various soils 

 and situations, of the methods of planting, of manuring and pruning for 

 various different purposes, of the stocks on which to bud and how to raise 

 them, of insect and fungus pests and diseases. Roses under glass are 

 treated of as well as in the open air ; advice and directions for exhibiting 

 &c. Then all the principal and best sorts in existence are admirably 

 described, and all their peculiarities of needs or conduct noted. The book 

 ends with selected lists for various purposes, and a calendar of all the 

 months, and what should be done in each to secure a really lovely and 

 perpetual Rose garden. 



" European Fungus Flora — Agaricaceae." By George Massee, F.L.S., 

 V.M.H. (Duckworth & Co., London.) 6s. 8vo. 



The mycologists (students of fungi) of every European country will 

 have cause to thank Mr. Massee for providing them with what is practically 

 a dictionary of all known European Agarics, of which no less than 2,750 

 species are here described, 1,553 of them being British. The labour of 

 compiling such a book must have been enormous, and for many years to 

 come it will doubtless form the authoritative text-book of the Agaricaceae, 

 and will be a necessary volume of reference to all students of mycology. 

 It should be understood that it is not a book to take up for half an hour's 

 light reading, but is essentially a book for reference and study. 



" The Gardener's Assistant." By the late Robert Thompson. Revised 

 and edited by William Watson. (The Gresham Publishing Company, 

 Southampton Street.) Vol. VI. Imperial 8vo. 8s. 



This is the concluding volume of one of the best books ever issued for 

 the use of a working gardener or an amateur. It was a first-rate book 

 when it first issued from the pen of Mr. Robert Thompson, head gardener 

 to the Royal Horticultural Society ; and now that it is revised after 

 a lapse of so many years and brought up to date it has, under the 

 editorship of Mr. Watson, of Kew, approached as nearly to perfection as 

 any such work can do. It should be in every bothy and in every 

 gardener's house, for there are few (if any) such " all-round " men as 

 not to benefit by a study of one part of it or another. The present 

 volume is concerned chiefly with the vegetable garden, concluding with 



