now label-less through too much care, and identify and mark the 
glorious Peonies, which like men and women, can only be enjoyed 
properly when their names are known to us. 
Mrs. Francis King.) Louisa Y. King, 
Garden Club of Michigan. 
Strawberry Growing. By S. W. Fletcher. Published by the 
Macmillan Co. Price $1.75. 
A satisfactory book, filled as it is with definite and elementary 
directions for successfully growing strawberries in a small way, as 
well as the technical practices of their commercial culture. Mr. 
Fletcher's evident pleasure in describing the history and botany of the 
strawberry endows it with a personality. Surely all who read will be 
inspired to plant. 
The Potato. By A. W. Gilbert. Published by the Macmillan Co. 
Price Si. 50. 
Written rather for the winter fireside than for the spring field. 
A book for those who are already growers of potatoes, and for them 
it is full of information. 
Manual oe Fruix Diseases. By Lex R. Hesler and Herbert Ffise. 
Published by the Macmillan Co. Price S2.00. 
Xot only of great value for growers of fruit, but many of the 
remedies reco mm ended could be used to advantage in the vegetable 
and flower garden. In the book there is a commendable tendency to 
simplify. Often one remedy is suggested for a number of allied dis- 
eases, which is a step in the right direction, as the remedies have mul- 
tiplied of late, almost as alarmingly as the diseases. 
(Airs. Charles M. Hubbard.) Louise S. Hubbard, 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
The Mysteries oe the Flowers. By Herbert W. Faulkener. 
Frederick A. Stokes Company. 
For you, who studied Botany in school — Botany, with a big B — 
and hated it just because you loved the flowers — for you, I say, this 
book was written. 
When I was a girl, Botany seemed like dissecting my pet dog, or 
maybe my best friend. I did not care to study my best friend's 
main arteries, or her digestive organs, or possibly her third rib, I 
loved my friend — and my flowers — and that was enough. 
But this book tells of the flowers as Maeterlinck tells of the bees, 
with true love and understanding, as well as that perfect knowledge 
