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He is eminently practical in his advice about the use of a good side 
till plough, and also in urging that pumps for spraying or for the use 
of insecticides should be obtained from near home, so that if any 
part of them should need repair this can quickly be attended to. In 
regard to the increasing interest that women of all nations take in 
out-of-door matters, it is satisfactory to find that two practical books 
that he recommends are written by women. One is " Home Sanita- 
tion," by Mrs. Ellen M. Richards and Marion Talbot, and the other is 
" Women Plumbers and Doctors," by Mrs. H. M. Plunkett. The 
pictures that he shows of houses and roads are perhaps somewhat 
overshadowed by trees and climbers according to our English notions 
of the necessity for admitting as much sunlight as possible, but these 
again must be looked at critically as applying to weather conditions 
that differ from English ones. 
" Market Gardening." By F. L. Yeard. 8vo., 102 pp. (Wiley, 
New York; Chapman & Hall, London, 1915.) 3s. 6d. net. 
This book, so full of useful practical hints given in a marvellously 
condensed space, should be most serviceable at a time when we are 
all considering not only how we ourselves can best grow profitable 
vegetables, but how children can be trained to understand the 
importance of increasing our national food supplies. The pictures, 
which are beautifully clear, are most impressive, for we are shown 
large fields in which nothing but cucumbers is grown, another in 
which dandelions are cultivated, and a third given over entirely to 
horse-radish. It is the commoner kinds of vegetables and the methods 
and practices for growing and marketing these that Mr. Yeard deals 
with. We learn how much wheel hoes are used in school gardens, 
and we see by their use and that of the combined Hill and Drill Seeder 
and Wheel Hoe, and the picture of the Macker Smoothing Harrow, 
how many labour-saving implements are employed in Massachusetts, 
and how desirable it is that we should teach their value to our people. 
Little hints such as the following are not usually found in so slender 
a book, for we often have to search in an encyclopaedia to obtain details 
such as "the quality of the seeds is determined as much by the condi- 
tions under which they have been stored as by the conditions under 
which they have been grown." He advises their being kept in tight 
bags in a cool, dry place. There are excellent pictures and notes 
upon testing seeds, and another picture demonstrating the use of the 
Skinner Overhead Sprinkler system of irrigation. This consists of 
overhead pipes that have small nozzles in the perforations and which 
can be turned round so that they distribute water in all directions. 
The details about lifting and storing celery, cabbage, and onions are 
interesting as showing the difficulties that the American grower is 
confronted with owing to cold weather. His hints are all given with 
a view to growing as large a quantity of food as possible in all ground 
whether it belongs to large or small gardens. 
