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.) 



Under the above title the Royal Horticultural Society has 

 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 considerable previous 

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



As implied bv 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. 



" Xo 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 identify the disease at once, but they are also told 

 both how to treat it and overcome it." 



Mr. G. Massee, F.L.S., Y.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 Royal Horticultural Society under whose auspices it 



has appeared. " 



The Volume is bound in buckram, and makes an admirable 

 school prize or gift to a gardener or student of nature. 



TO BE OBTAINED FROM THE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



VINCENT SQUARE, LONDON, S.W. 



Price 4 s. post free. 



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