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existing terms, and all these are included, so that this is far and away 
the best book of its kind to be obtained. 
The book is very free from misprints ; indeed, apart from those 
referred to on the last page, the only one we have noticed is a curious 
jumbling of the letters of a word meant to be " economics," on p. 54. 
" Productive Bee-keeping." By F. C. Pellett. 8vo. xiv + 302 
pp. (Lippincott, Philadelphia [1916].) 6s. net. 
Bee-keeping in England is not quite like bee-keeping in America, 
but America is so large and embraces so many different climates that 
the practices followed in some parts of it must be similar to those 
adopted in this country, and as the author of this excellent and lucid 
hand-book is careful to state the conditions in which the various 
practices he describes are to be followed, this may be regarded as a 
reliable guide to bee-keepers in this country too. 
Apart from their value as honey-producers, bees play a consider- 
able part in carrying pollen from one tree to another in the orchard, 
and thus ensuring fertility of fruit where little or none would be 
otherwise. While various wild bees and flies play some part in this, 
hive bees are important too. The Isle of Wight disease has, un- 
fortunately, devastated many of our apiaries, and, as America knows 
it not at present, no hints in this manual will avail in the endeavour 
so many bee-keepers have to make to combat it. 
The book is well illustrated with reproductions of photographs 
which help to make the text clear, and introduce numbers of ingenious 
tools and apparatuses to the reader. 
" Profitable Herb Growing and Collecting." By Ada B. Teetgen. 
8vo. xi 4- 180 pp. (Country Life, London, 1916.) 3s. 6d. 
The war has brought home to all of us how dependent we are 
upon other countries for many of even the most common necessaries ; 
things which we might easily produce in this country, but which for 
one reason or another, generally on account of our neglect of home 
industries or for economic reasons, we have, until the war began t 
imported from one or other of the enemy countries. 
At one time our English gardens were incomplete without their 
beds of herbs, and many a healing medicine was made from plants 
collected by the wayside. The ease with which herb-concoctions 
could be produced, no doubt, often led to the crafty imposing upon 
the credulous, and the gradual growth of more systematic knowledge 
and the development of medicine, as well as the congress of people 
to towns, put a check upon the use of the herb-woman's mixtures, 
and upon the home-brewing of the various remedies of which Culpeper 
and his forerunners tell so much. 
Many of the plants formerly used have "gone out," but it will come 
as a surprise to many to learn that over three hundred plants native 
in Britain, or very commonly and easily grown here, are still officinal. 
A few, like dill, coriander, and caraway, have been grown as farm 
