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a most valuable calendar of operations in the fruit and vegetable depart- 

 ments. It is in every way equal to its predecessors, and higher praise 

 could not be accorded. 



"Roses for English Gardens." By Gertrude Jekyll, V.M.H., and 

 Edward Mawley. (Country Life Office, 20 Tavistock Street.) 12s. 6d. 

 8vo. 



Like everything that issues from Country Life, this book is magni- 

 ficently got up, printed with delightful type and on excellent paper, and 

 illustrated with upwards of 200 full-page illustrations, which are in 

 themselves a perfect feast of delight ; and being all reproductions from 

 actual photographs, they should inspire beholders not only with enthusiasm 

 but with the determination to make their own porticos, verandahs, pillars, 

 Rose gardens, or Rose arches as beautiful as those depicted. There is a 

 chapter on arranging cut flowers which is greatly to be commended to 

 the ladies; in fact, we strongly recommend every " mere man " to buy 

 a copy of this volume and present it to that lady of the household who 

 undertakes the arrangement of the flowers. The fact that Mr. Mawley 

 is Hon. Secretary of the National Rose Society is guarantee that the 

 best possible advice is given as to selecting, planting, and pruning Roses 

 outdoors and also under glass. 



" Gardening for Beginners." Second edition. By E. T. Cook. 

 (George Newnes, Ltd., London.) 12s. Qd. 8vo. 



This work contains 550 pages of instruction and information which 

 we can thoroughly recommend to beginners and "others." It is 

 eminently practical, and just the sort of book that a young gardener 

 should keep by him ; in fact, when in doubt consult " Gardening for 

 Beginners," and you are almost certain to find the advice and direction 

 you require. Lovers of flowers who live in towns will find words to 

 encourage them to try again if at first they don't succeed ; and with such 

 a list of hardy perennials to select from as that given on page 392 they 

 must be hard to please if they cannot find plenty to their taste. Amateurs 

 frequently fail in fruit culture, just as even professional gardeners will 

 sometimes do in the management of Ferns. The careful following of 

 Mr. Cook's instructions in either case is sufficient to insure success. The 

 woodcuts and illustrations are excellent. 



" Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical." By John Percival, 

 M.A., F.L.S. (Duckworth & Co., Covent Garden, W.C.) 



In this work Professor Percival has supplied a much-felt want in pro- 

 viding agricultural students with a text-book on botany suited to their 

 particular branch of study, and omitting all such details as interest only 

 the scientific botanist. It is divided into eight parts, which treat of 

 General External Morphology, Anatomy, Physiology of Plants, Classi- 

 fication and Special Botany of Farm Crops, Weeds of the Farm, Farm 

 Seeds, Fungi, and Bacteria. A great part of the book is just as appli- 

 cable to gardeners as to farmers, and invaluable to either. One novel 



