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for the offence, and it would probably bring them into un- 
pleasant contact with the older inhabitants. Of course the 
action of egg-stealing becomes a serious crime when the eggs 
are partridges or pheasants, although the distinction is more 
real than apparent. 
I would urge upon all societies which have the protection of 
bird-life at heart the necessity of making the Act a real force 
in preventing the wholesale destruction of eggs. It is too late 
this year to do anything, but much could be done in readiness 
for the close season of 1899. 
W. B. Gerish. 
Hoddesdon, Herts. 
June 1, 1898. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Garden-making. — Suggestions for the Utilising of Home Grounds. 
By L. H. Bailey. The Macmillan Company, New York. 
Pp. 417, 8vo. Price 4s. net. With 256 Illustrations. 
(The Garden-Craft Series.) 
This is one of several eminently practical, scientifically 
accurate, and at the same time, racily interesting books for 
which we are indebted to Professor Bailey. He has called to 
his assistance several most competent specialists, and the result 
is a pocket manual from which every gardener will learn much, 
though its garden calendars are drawn up with reference to the 
United States. Of the many excellent illustrations, perhaps 
those in the section on landscape - gardening are the most 
valuable, as they at once teach the desired lesson of good taste ; 
but the numerous designs of tools and what we term “ Yankee 
notions” in the earlier part of the book are also most suggestive. 
We hope our English horticultural implement-makers will look 
at this little volume. 
The Pruning -B 00 k : A Monograph of the Pruning and Training of 
Plants as applied to American Conditions. By L. H. Bailey. 
Pp. 537. Price 5s. net. With 331 Illustrations. 
This is another volume in the same series, by the same 
author, which should make our French friends, whom we have 
always considered our guides on such topics, look to their 
laurels. Dealing, as it necessarily does, mainly with an artificial 
system of treatment to increase the productiveness of fruit-trees 
or to remedy injuries which are too often the result of the 
neglect or maltreatment of trees, the subject is a painful one to 
the Selbornian ; but Professor Bailey is a learned and humane 
physician who gives good physiological reasons for his advice, 
