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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 (Royal Horticultural Society, Vinceut 

 Square. Westminster), Half-calf, 10s. Gd. net. 



Under the ab^ve title the Royal 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 considerable previous knowledge, and 

 would be better left in charge of an expert.'' 



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

 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 less 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. 



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, well bound in half-calf, and is in every sense a credit to its author 

 and to the Royal Horticultural Society under whose auspices it has 

 appeared." 



To be had of the Royal Horticultural Society at their Hall 

 in Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., free by post 

 10s. 6d. half-bound in calf. 



