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believes that the Ladybird breeds Greenfly, and proniptly smashes every 

 one he sees. Many very good remedies are recommended for the pests 

 and diseases so well known to rose-growers, and we endorse the excel- 

 lent advice of the author to destroy the pests immediately they appear 

 before they li,ave a chance of increasing. Much more might be said 

 of the contents of this valuable book, but quite enough has been said 

 to show that no rose-grower should be without it. 



"The Gardener and the Cook." By Lucy H. Yates. 8vo., 

 260 pp. (Constable, London, 1912.) 3s. M. 



This is a brightly written, well illustrated book which tells of two 

 people who, although neither vegetarians nor fruitarians, had of 

 necessity to subsist chiefly on vegetables and fruit, and who, to this 

 end, took an old house in Sussex with an exceptionally well situated 

 kitchen-garden of nearly two acres, and forthwith engaged Charlemagne 

 and Charlotte (the gardener and the cook), two delightfully interesting 

 and adaptable persons who will make many a sorely-tried house- 

 keeper envious of the authoress's good fortune in securing, in these 

 difficult' times, so accommodating a couple. 



By careful management and due consideration to the wise rotation 

 of crops they were enabled to obtain a constant supply of the better- 

 class vegetables and salads all the year round, which Charlotte, being 

 French, utilized to perfection. 



The book contains excellent and unconventional recipes for the 

 preparation of delicious and quite uncommon dishes, and there are 

 chapters on drying, preserving, and storing herbs, fruit, and vege- 

 tables for the winter season. 



" Sundials and Eoses of Yesterday." By Alice Morse Earle. 

 8vo., 461 pp. , (Macmillan, London and New York.) 10s. 6d. net. 



To the average individual whose taste, perhaps, runs to collecting 

 coins or postage stamps, the accumulation of ancient sundials must 

 seem a heavy and ponderous occupation, but Mrs. Earle has apparently 

 derived much enjoyment from her hobby, and has given us a very 

 interesting book on the subject, profusely illustrated with excellent 

 photographs and drawings. Her description of many old English 

 dials, with their quaint mottos and inscriptions, is most entertaining, 

 and makes very pleasant reading for a winter's evening, when one 

 can in imagination stroll through many an old garden with its ' ' double 

 row of hollyhocks, spires of flame and rose-colour, white and crimson, 

 and bunches of golden Aaron's rod and Canterbury bells, and bee 

 larkspur and prince's feathers, and, later in the year, tufts of purple, 

 gOiden-eyed Michaelmas daisies, and, at the end of all, upon a lump 

 of turf, a grey time-tinged sundial " marking the sunny hours. 

 Many of us would like to have a " time-tinged " *dial embellishing 

 a rose-walk in spite of the fact that a sundial only records the trae^ 

 noon four times a year. 



