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HAND-BOOK OF ALLOTMENT AGRICULTURE. 
REVIEW. 
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Article X.—THE HANDBOOK OF ALLOTMENT AGRICULTURE, IN 
PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE; 
FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND OF ALLOTMENT TENANTS. 
By James Bennie, A. M. Sfc. 1 8mo —Is. 3c?. 
This work consists of 92 pages, illustrated with wood cuts. No 
doubt it will be found useful in assisting the persons for whom it is 
intended. It commences with the “ Science of Agriculture” much 
in the same manner as the Handbook of Gardening (reviewed Vol. 
3, p. 249) treating on the Months of plants, the sorts of food taken 
by held plants. Air, Causes of the Growth of Plants, Heat, Cold, and 
Exposure, Seed Sowing, Steeping of Seeds.—Next follows the “ Art 
and Practice of Agriculture, as rearing Field Crops, keeping domes¬ 
tic animals—as Cow keeping, Pig keeping, Goat keeping, Poultry 
keeping, and Bee keeping. According to our judgment, the rules 
given are, generally speaking, very good; at any rate purchasers will 
find it well worth the price. Allotment tenants, and all persons in¬ 
terested in the furtherance of the Allotment system will profit by its 
perusal. 
Handbook of Gardening, New Edition, with improvements, by 
the same Author, p. 148, 18mo. Is. 9d.—The former edition of this 
work contained but 130 pages, in this eighteen more are given, seve¬ 
ral things are corrected, and fresh notes incorporated. Amongst other 
useful additions, the author has stated the quantities of the several 
required seeds in order to sow small beds, and hence benevolent landed 
proprietors may readily make out a list of seeds suitable to give, by 
way of present, to a deserving tenant. This is certainly an improved 
edition, and as we recommended the first edition to cottagers and 
young gardener’s, we do not hesitate to say to those of this class, who 
did not purchase the first—buy this new edition. 
Handbook of Plain Botany, or Linnsen Lessons on Common 
Plants for field and garden practice, by the same author, price 2s. 
All the Alphabets and handbooks on different branches of science, 
by Professor Rennie, which have fallen into our hands, are excellent. 
This handbook of plain Botany will no doubt be very extensively cir¬ 
culated, for with a little application, a person may in a short time 
obtain from it a good rudamental knowledge of the Science of Botany. 
The work is illustrated by numerous wood cuts, and is cheap at 
the price. 
