BOOK REVIEWS. 



Justice cannot be done to the many excellencies of the work 

 Mr. Mawson has produced, and we can only commend it to the serious 

 student of civic planning, and to all those to whom the care of towns 

 and villages is entrusted, whether as members of city or town councils 

 or as landowners. 



The numerous illustrations, which form a conspicuous feature of 

 the book, reflect great credit upon designer and publisher alike. 



"The School Garden Monthly." Ed. by D. Houston. 8vo. 

 12 pp. (D'Olier St., Dublin.) id. monthly. 



School gardening has proved a valuable educational influence in 

 many English and Scottish schools of late years, and is now making 

 steady progress in Irish elementary and secondary schools. We feel 

 sure teachers will welcome this new monthly publication, which is 

 eminently suitable to put into their pupils' hands as a reading book. 

 We are glad to see that the spirit of the older naturalists actuates the 

 editor, for too much organization, too much making easy of the 

 path, soon kill the educative value of nature-study and school- 

 gardening, and of every other human activity, for human beings if 

 they are to progress must not be made into machines. 



"Manual of Fruit Insects." By M. V. Slingerland and C. R. Crosby. 

 8vo. xvi + 503 pp. (Macmillan Co., New York, 1914.) 8s. 6d. net. 



The " Rural Manuals " have established a just claim for recognition 

 among books deahng with gardening and farming, and the latest 

 addition will only add to the reputation the series has gained. It 

 deals, of course, with American fruit pests and includes those that 

 attack apple, pear, quince, plum, peach, cherry, raspberry, blackberry, 

 dewberry, currant, gooseberry, strawberry, grape, and cranberry. 



Many of the insects dealt with are fortunately not troublesome in 

 this country, and of those common to both, the life-histories are not 

 always the same, but the complete account of methods of prevention 

 and remedy will prove very suggestive to those who have to fight 

 similar pests in this country. 



No fewer than one hundred and three insects are deemed worthy 

 of notice as pests of the apple, while Theobald in his " Insect Pests 

 of Fruit," the fullest account of fruit enemies we have in England, 

 mentions only sixty-two. The pests of other fruits are similarly 

 fully dealt with. The apple Psylla does not appear to occur in 

 America, nor does the apple saw-fly. These are two of our worst pests, 

 and we can only hope, for the sake of our American cousins, that it 

 may be long before thej^ invade their orchards as the American goose- 

 berry mildew has ours. 



The get-up of the book leaves nothing to be desired. 



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