292 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



"The Country Month by Month." By J. A. Owen and G. S. 

 Boulger. 8vo., x + 492 pp. (Duckworth, London, 1914.) 6s. net. 



This calendar of the changing face of the country and its wild 

 life, birds and beasts and insects, flowers and trees, was first pubHshed 

 in 1 90 1. The present edition has been revised, and numerous notes 

 by Lord Lilford on bird-life enrich it. It is a book of much literary 

 charm, and will be welcomed by the nature-lover. 



" Makers of Modem Agriculture." By W. Macdonald, D.Sc. 8vo., 

 ix + 82 pp. (Macmillan, London, 1913.) 2s. 6d. net. 



The lives of the men to whom modern agriculture owes 

 its remarkable progress, Jethro Tull, Thomas Coke of Holkham, 

 Arthur Young, John Sinclair, and Cyrus H. McCormick, are passed in 

 brief review and their teaching is outlined in few words, but without 

 omitting any essential. The book is worthy of perusal by all who 

 would know the authors of the main steps of progress in agriculture, 

 four of them Britons, one McCormick the inventor of the reaping 

 machine, an American, a descendant of Scots who, after settling in 

 Ulster, emigrated to Virginia. 



" The Horticultural Note-book." By J. C. Newsham. 8vo., 

 XX + 418 pp. (Lockwood, London, 1914.) 4s. 6d. net. 



A tremendous amount of useful information is brought together 

 in this little book on all sorts of questions that arise in connexion 

 with almost every phase of gardening. Weights and measures, 

 which vary so much in different parts of the country and for different 

 things, land measuring and mensuration, garden formation, horti- 

 cultural buildings, hedges, fences and gates, soils, manures, the 

 propagation of plants and seed sowing, fruit, flower, and vegetable 

 cultivation, trees and shrubs for various purposes, insecticides and 

 fungicides, garden meteorology, and garden recipes each have their 

 chapter, and several illustrations help to elucidate the text. A full 

 index is given. It is evident the author has spent great pains in 

 compiling this useful reference book, and though, no doubt, continued 

 use would find it wanting here and there, and though there are a few 

 misprints scattered through its pages, it is so full and so accurate 

 that we can recommend all who have to deal with gardens of any size 

 to its pages with the assurance that they will not fail to obtain much 

 help therein. 



" Cattleyen und Laelien." By A. Hefka. 8vo., vii -f 83 pp. 

 (Frick, Vienna, 1914.) K4.80. 



A general account of the cultivation of Laelias and Cattleyas 

 and of some of their hybrids is foUowed by descriptions of many of 

 the species, Progagation is described, and finally the question as to 

 whether orchid-growing for market is a profitable proceeding is 

 discussed. Those orchid-growers whose knowledge of German permits 

 them to read this book will find a good deal to interest them and 

 possibly same suggestive hints. 



