172 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The following extract shows this : " A good plan for planting early 
and late celery is to set the two kinds in alternate rows two feet apart. 
The early celery is to be blanched with boards or heavy paper staked 
against the plants. The early celery is harvested before the late 
celery needs much banking, leaving the late celery in rows, four 
feet apart." 
The book is practical and it is inspiring too, for it shows what can 
be done on a large scale if intelligence is brought to bear upon work 
and the latest inventions in the shape of implements are utilized. 
" Vegetable Growing for Amateurs." By H. H. Thomas. 8vo. 
151 pp. (Cassell, London, 1916.) is. net. 
A well-written and practical little book, eminently suitable for the 
class of readers it is intended for. 
" My Growing Garden." By J. H. McFarland. 8vo. 216 pp. 
(Macmillan, London and New York, 1915.) 85. 6d. net. 
The author has written a most enthusiastic and interesting book 
on the making and gradual development of his garden, that charms 
the reader from one cover to the other, and although he writes about 
the snow and climate in which he lives in the United States, he names 
many plants that can only be grown in the most favoured parts of 
the British Isles, but which evidently succeed well with the author, 
but it would be most misleading to imagine he could succeed equally 
well with them in this country. The book is splendidly printed and 
beautifully illustrated. 
" Round the Year in the Garden." By H. H. Thomas. 8vo. 
2 75 PP- (Cassell, London, 1916.) 6s. net. 
Although there are almost innumerable books on horticulture, 
garden matters provide an inexhaustible theme. Success and failure, 
pleasure and disappointment, all add to the never-ending interest and 
fascination the garden holds for its owner ; all this is well described 
by the author. Not only is the work defined for each month of the 
year in the fruit, flower, and vegetable quarters, but a mass of informa- 
tion on cultivation is given, as well as other useful matter. It is an 
excellent, well printed, and well illustrated book, worthy of a place 
in every garden library. 
" The Ferns of South Africa." By T. R. Sim. 2nd edition, xii 
+ 384 PP- and 186 pi. (University Press, Cambridge, 1915.) 25s. 
net. 
The land of bulbs, of Mesembryanthemums, Pelargoniums, and 
Heaths, seems to those who are unfamiliar with its varied climates, 
and forget for the moment what vast regions " South Africa " connotes, 
to hold little promise of ferns. Seasons of drought and a summer 
sun burning all the earth to brown, and stretches of sand inhabited 
by curious desert plants, are the pictures often conjured up by the 
