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vclume which is in every way far superior to what we had imagined would 
have been the case. We confess that we have been agreeably disappointed, 
and that the book is not by any means so backward as we had imagined. 
W r e think the editor has been very wise in omitting the subject of heat, 
which originally occupied part of this volume. We think, too, that he has 
not been unwise in his introduction of a number of examples which can be 
readily worked out by the student who has even an elementary knowledge 
of algebra and geometry. This, of course, makes the book more valuable 
to the student who means to go in for such an examination as that of matri- 
culation at the London University. Indeed the work was absolutely useless 
to such a man before, for its examples were of the simplest possible kind. 
Still, in many parts it is defective ; that, for example, on flying machines, 
contains little that is not to be found in the old edition, while the amount 
of work done both in this country and abroad on this particular subject is 
indeed both vast and interesting. In type and illustrations this work is, as 
is usual with the so-called Lardner’s books, excellent, and the amount of 
new matter, including the excellent examples at the end, is very consider- 
able. We do not think, however, that a single illustration is to be found 
throughout its pages which did not exist in the older edition. 
A BOOK ON ROSES.* 
M R. SHIRLEY HIBBERD is now so well known as a writer on the sub- 
jects of the garden and the greenhouse, that the mere announcement of a 
new work or a new edition from his pen is sufficient to bring ample readers. 
The present work is a newly edited account of those various roses which, with 
little difficulty, may be brought up by all who are in possession of the merest 
shadow of a greenhouse. But all of the book is not devoted to these, for 
a very considerable portion of it is occupied by a description of the various 
modes of grafting, bedding and propagating roses : such, for example, as the 
dwarf rose, the climbing rose, the pillar rose, the fairy rose, the yellow rose, 
and the wilderness rose. Then several of the author’s chapters have to do with 
such questions as stocks for roses, roses under glass, roses in town gardens, roses 
for decorations, the enemies of the roses, and on buying new roses, or sending 
roses by rail or post, the curiosities of rose growing, the rose show ; lastly, 
reminders of monthly work. Indeed there is no form of information which 
the amateur rose lover requires that will not be found in Mr. Hibberd’s 
work ; furthermore the author possesses a lively style, so that the reader 
is prevented from falling asleep over his pages. The illustrations to 
the volume are partly woodcuts and partly coloured lithographs ; these 
latter are double-page, and represent a single flower natural size. In some 
cases they are only fair ; but in others — the yellow roses, for example — they 
are really exquisitely rendered. 
* “ The Amateur’s Rose Book ; comprising the Cultivation of the Rose 
in the Open Ground and under Glass,” &c., <S:c. By Shirley Hibberd. A 
New Edition. London : Groombridge, 1874. 
