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says, " Gas-lime kills everything , and the ground it is applied to cannot 

 be used for cropping for quite six months." We have used gas-lime 

 in quantity, and have not found it so efficacious in destroying insect 

 and fungoid pests, or weeds, but of course the gas-lime of to-day is 

 usually far less efficacious than that of older times. A capital index 

 finishes the book. 



" The Perpetual Flowering Carnation." By E. J. Wootten. 

 8vo., 55 pp. (Simpkin, London, 1914.) 3s. net. 



So much interest is taken in the perpetual flowering carnations 

 that they are now cultivated in almost every garden of any extent, 

 and are looked upon as almost indispensable ; and although this book 

 of Mr. Wootten's is rather expensive for its size, we have no hesitation 

 in saying it is well worth its cost. The treatment of the plants 

 from the seedhng or cutting stage, both indoors and outdoors, is ably 

 dealt with ; soils, calendar of operations, stopping and cutting back, 

 insect and fungoid pests, and, last but not least, watering, are all clearly 

 described. We commend the author's advice on watering to all 

 amateurs and young gardeners, viz. " On no account over-water your 

 plant ; never give it more than it can absorb or drink up. Do not 

 water on Saturday to save watering on Sunday. If your plant does 

 not want it, do not give it any." There are probably more failures 

 with Carnations through careless or injudicious watering than from 

 any other cause. 



The book closes with a general index of the best varieties. 



" The Carnation Year Book." By J. S. Brunton. 8vo., 80 pp. 

 (Hortus Printing Co., Burnley, 1914.) i5. 6d., post free. 



This is the official publication of the Perpetual Flowering Carna- 

 tion Society, and in the contents are the list of officers, members, rules, 

 varieties registered, and a number of instructive articles by some of 

 the leading experts in Carnation culture. There is no index, but it 

 is scarcely necessary in such a book. 



"A Woman's Hardy Garden." By Helena Rutherfurd Ely. 

 With illustrations from photographs taken from the author's garden 

 by Prof. C. F. Chandler. 8vo., 216 pp. (Macmillan, London and 

 New York, 1903.) 7s. 6d. net. 



A chatty, cheerful little American book of gardening instructions, 

 beautifully and profusely illustrated. There are chapters on seed-beds, 

 perennials, annuals, roses, &c., and some amusing remarks about pro- 

 fessional gardeners of the jobbing type. One of these was a German, 

 who took no interest in flowers, but half-filled the garden with " kohl- 

 rabi " and " korn salad," and considered " one kind of flower was 

 enough to raise anyway." 



At the end of the book are the following words, which are as true 

 of English women as American : — 



" If the rich and fashionable women of this country took more 



