Opportunities Out of Doors. By Edward Owen Dean. 
Harper and Brothers. $1.25. 
This Volume of 132 pages is divided into eight chapters, each 
one discussing in more or less detail some form of employment by 
which a man can earn his living out of doors. The subjects 
include four of special interest to nature . lovers and students ; 
Forestry; Tree Surgery; Collecting and Growing Medicinal 
Plants, and Landscape Gardening. 
Clear, concise outlines of just what these employments are, 
and their requirements, should assist many a youth in deciding 
whether to enter any of them. This refers more especially to 
forestry and tree surgery. The collecting and growing of med- 
icinal plants would hardly be a steady or remunerative employ- 
ment. And landscape gardening, if one is to rise above the rank 
of a common laborer through the various grades of gardening to 
the ultimate goal of landscape architecture, requires years of 
increasing education, study and intellectual development. 
This little book is interesting in several ways, not the least 
being its help in presenting ideas when boys of varying walks 
of life seek suggestions and advice. 
A. H. 
Departments 
The Gardener's Miscellany 
Chrysanthemum SIioavs seem to be the grande finale to our 
gardening year. It is all over for us "Hardy-gardeners," if 
we have done our bulb planting and fall covering, and by 
Thanksgiving Day only the woman with conservatories or 
glass of some kind need give a thought, to her precious 
garden till the seed Catalogues arrive. I confess I like the 
rest. It corresponds to the children's getting oft' to boarding 
school, you have time to catch your breath and take account of 
stock. 
By the way, if you have not read Mrs. "Warren's good Compost 
article on page 52 of the September Bulletin, do so at 
once and register a vow that no one over whom you have any 
control shall be allowed to burn leaves, that precious and truly 
heaven-sent fertilizer. It is not too late to start your compost- 
heap now, if you have not already done so, remembering to 
add to it the outer leaves of the cabbages which are always 
removed and thrown away before storage. Nothing helps the 
leaves to decay as quickly as the bacteria found in decaying 
cabbages. Indeed the compost-heap has come into its own 
since motors have killed off the horses. We have now to 
resort to all kinds of strange enrichments for our gardens, such 
as sea-weed, decaying vegetables and green materials of all kinds 
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