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the nation's food supply. A biographical note is prefixed to this 
edition of the book, which is substantially the same as the last, with a 
few additional pages interpolated where necessary to bring it thoroughly 
up to date. 
" Annuals and Biennials." By Gertrude Jekyll, with Cultural 
Notes by E. H. Jenkins. 8vo. xiv + 174 pp. (" Country Life," 
London, 1916.) 7s. 6d. net. 
Miss Jekyll and her writings are so well known that it would be 
like painting the lily to praise her work ; needless to say it is what 
might be expected from her, and also from Mr. Jenkins, who so ably 
assisted with the cultural notes. The book is admirably printed 
and charmingly illustrated, full of concise information, and well got 
up in every way. A very good index completes it. 
"The Food Garden." By William F. Rowles. 8vo. 324pp. 
(Headley Bros., London, 1916.) 6s. net. 
We cannot do better than quote the author's description of this 
book : "A manual showing how to produce food in abundance 
from the small garden, how to organize the greenhouse and frame for 
food supply, and how to preserve food products from the garden. 
A " Foreword " by the Rev. W. Wilks, recommends the book to 
amateurs. It is for the amateur that the book is written, and on the 
whole the information given is excellent, and will be very instructive 
and valuable, for it indicates how better and more food can be produced 
with very little more labour and expense. We do not quite agree 
with the author's list of fruits for a garden. For instance, ' Worcester 
Pearmain ' is recommended ; it is a lovely apple to look at, but not to 
be compared with ' James Grieve,' ripening at the same period, and 
equally as heavy a bearer. 1 Pitmaston Duchess ' pear, too, has little 
to boast about, except its appearance. In vegetable cultivation, no 
mention is made of sowing carrots and globe beet at the end of July 
or early in August. For some years we have done this, and left the 
produce in the ground all winter, pulling them for use as wanted, 
and giving no protection ; and where there is trouble with the carrot 
fly we strongly advise sowing the carrots in the months named. 
We have never known the fly to be at all troublesome, and excellent 
clean roots have always been abundant. Globe beet pulled fresh from 
the soil all winter are infinitely better than those that have been 
stored, and it will have to be a tremendous frost that will injure the 
roots. We suggest the author should include these and other food 
crops for sowing up to the first or second week in August ; the land is 
cleared of so many crops by then, and ready for sowing again. 
" A Text-book of Botany for Colleges." By W. F. Ganong, Ph.D. 
8vo. xi + 401 pp. (Macmillan Co., New York, 1916.) 8s. 6d. net. 
Dr. Ganong combines in a rare degree the faculty of the teacher 
with that of the man of science, who must verify facts before he builds 
