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Ckelsda IVinJow Gardening. By L. M. Forster. Fisher Unwin. Price 2d 
That a third edition of Miss Forster’s useful little manual has been called for, 
is in itself evidence of its value. It is issued to assist the work of the Metro- 
politan Public Garden Association, and we hope many a Londoner will profit 
by its practical suggestions on such topics as watering, digging, manuring, sowing, 
pruning, &c. When the fourth edition is prepared some of the names should be 
revised : generic names with small initial letters seem to the botanist as odd as 
would human surnames if so written. 
The Cultivation of the Commo/i Hare. By the Rev. E. A. WoodruflTe-Peacock. 
South, Goulding and Son. Price is. 
Naturalists and sportsmen alike will find this an admirable contribution to our 
knowledge of the life-history of Lepus timidus. 
The Culture of Sweet Peas. By Richard Dean. Agricultural and Horticultural 
Association. Price id. 
This is the third edition of a very useful little handbook by the founder 
of the National Sweet Pea Society. It brings the best and most reliable advice 
within the reach of every one interested. The pamphlet forms No. l of a series 
of cheap popular handbooks edited by Edward Owen Greening, F.R.H.S. The 
Editor adds some notes on recent developments of sweet peas, and the Hon. 
H. A. Stanhope notes on everlasting peas. There are also some detailed hints 
on growing sweet peas by William Smith, a practical cultivator of the popular 
flowers ; and the handbook is illustrated on every page. 
Familiar Wild Flowers. Part I. By F. E. Hulme, F. L.S. New Edition. 
Cassell and Co. Price fid. net. 
This first part of an enlarged re-issue of Professor Hulme’s popular work is 
a striking instance of what the tiicolour process can do to cheapen production. 
It contains the coloured plates and descriptions of eight species not before 
included in the series, together with a carefully thought-out colour index to the 
whole work. As all the forty new plates are to be included in the first five 
fortnightly Parts, those who already have the 280 previously published need 
only buy these to complete their sets. The publishers are also presenting sub- 
scribers to the whole forty nuntbers with eight cloth cases in which to bind them. 
The Essex Naturalist. Vol. XIII., Parts VII., VHI. October, 1904, and 
January, 1905. Price 5s. each. 
These two excellent parts of the Journal of that model Field Club which 
this year completes the first quarter-century of its existence, contain inter alia, 
a fascinating history of Pyrites and Gypsum, the two leading Essex minerals, by 
Mr. Rudler, a portrait and biography of George Edwards, the ornithologist, 
and a paper on the evidences of prehistoric man in West Kent, by Mr. J. 
Russell Larkby. 
Htill Museum Publications, No. 24. Quarterly Record of Additions. By 
Thos. Sheppard. Price id. 
A dandy-horse of a century ago, a box of old sulphur matches, a Hull spinning- 
wheel, a problematic metal object which proves to be part of a seventeenth 
century brass candlestick, some British gold coins and some old Derby china, 
furnish a goodly store for this interesting quarterly record, the twelfth issued by 
the indefatigable curator. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol., iii.. No. 1 1, contains papers 
on the flora of Florida, and of the Bahamas, and on the Cretaceous fo.ssil plants 
of Long Island, and a lengthy monograph, illustrated with twelve plates, on the 
embryology of Cucurbitaccic. 
