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Children's Gardens for School and 
Home. A manual of Co-Operative Gar- 
dening. By Louise Klein Miller. Illus- 
trated. New York, D. Appleton & Com- 
pany, 1904. 
The nature study movement, the ele- 
ments of agricultural knowledge as part 
of education, and the practical work of 
making school gardens, render this 
book a timely one ; and the experience 
of the author as teacher, supervisor of 
nature study, director of a school of hor- 
ticulture and landscape gardening for 
women, and a supervisor of children’s 
gardens, should qualify her to impart 
knowledge of the subject and to im- 
press it upon her readers and students 
in a positive and agreeable way. In 
looking over the list of chapter heads 
there does not appear to be a branch 
of the work overlooked, and a perusal 
of the chapters affords pleasant and in- 
structive reading, the matter being treat- 
ed simply but effectively, and evidently 
with a view to the capacity of every 
class of reader likely to study the pages 
of the book. School farms and school 
gardens are rapidly becoming a practical 
feature of common school education, and 
especially interesting are the chapters 
devoted to this department of the work, 
but what is good for the school children 
can be readily assimilated by those of 
larger growth, and introduced into the 
improvement of the home and home 
garden. A mass of information is of- 
fered on the general subject of garden- 
ing, and in the appendices will be found 
lists of trees, shrubs and flowers for 
larger and broader fields of garden 
work. The book also gives one a broad- 
er view of the school garden question 
and its possible and probable effect on 
the improvement of the community 
which fosters and encourages such pro- 
gressive and profitable education. 
Farmer’s Cyclopedia of Agriculture. 
—A compendium of Agricultural Science 
and Practice in Field, Orchard and Gar- 
den Crops, Spraying, Soils, the Feeding 
and Diseases of Farm Animals, Dairy 
Farming, and Poultry in the United 
States and Canada. By Early Vernon 
Wilcox, Ph. D., and Clarence Beaman 
Smith, M. S., Associate Editors in the 
Office of Experiment Stations, United 
States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C. Illustrated. New 
York: Orange Judd Company. 1904. 
It is difficult to take up this book of 
some 620 pages, for the purpose either 
of adequately setting forth its merits, or 
of defining its effects. Agriculture is 
such a vast subject and yearly calls forth 
such a mass of literature from our De- 
partment of Agriculture alone, that the 
student of all this intelligence can hardly 
bring himself to admit the possibility of 
even gathering the sifted material and 
extracting its facts so as to bring them 
within the space occupied by this vol- 
ume. But the authors occupy just the 
positions to enable them to perfom such 
a task satisfactorily and in their preface 
they advise the reader of the special 
effort made by them to call the attention 
of farmers to the vast amount of valua- 
ble literature along agricultural lines 
published by the various State Experi- 
ment stations and the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture. The authors 
have, therefore, framed this work as a 
digest of the results obtained by authori- 
tative farmers and experimenters, be- 
lieving such a digest will be of more 
value and interest to the farmer and 
more available for prompt reference. 
And we are sure the intelligent farmer 
will agree with them. The work was 
originally intended to be arranged al- 
phabetically, as to its information, but it 
has appeared to be better to divide it 
into chapters for greater convenience of 
those interested in particular phases of 
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farming, but in the chapters the alpha- 
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Constitution and By-laws of the Lake- 
side Cemetery association, Pekin, 111 ., is- 
sued in booklet form, illustrated with 
views in the cemetery, also contains sug- 
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Transactions of the Indiana Horti- 
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