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THE GARDENING WOULD. 
April 15, 1905. 
Reviews of Books. 
“ The Advertisers’ A.B.C.” The Standard Advertisement 
Press Directory. 1905. T. B. Browne, 163, Queen Vic¬ 
toria Street, London, E.C. Price 10s. 6d. 
The new edition of this book is the nineteenth annual re¬ 
issue of a standard work that is not only useful, but practically 
indispensable to advertisers on any extensive scale. It runs 
to more than 1,000 pages, and is clearly printed on art paper. 
It is divided into five sections, the first of which is entitled 
the “ Advertisement Picture Gallery.” This is followed by a 
directory in brief, arranged in alphabetical form, so that it is 
practically an index. London newspapers, magazines, etc., 
occupy nearly the centre of the book, and this section is fol¬ 
lowed by provincial newspapers. This in turn is followed by 
a section devoted to Colonial, American, and foreign matters. 
These sections are indicated on the edges of the leaves, so that 
as a, reference book it is invaluable to the busy man. The 
Picture Gallery contains a large number of pictures relating 
to a variety of subjects,- and is so well got up that many of 
them are quite works of art- Several article's relating to 
advertising on the Continent will be found useful to. business 
men in that respect. At the present time we are told that 
something like 4,807 newspapers, magazines, periodicals, etc., 
are published in the United Kingdom. 
“ The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia..” Everybody’s book of re¬ 
ference. London: The Amalgamated Press, Limited, 
and Thomas Nelson and Sons. Complete in forty fort¬ 
nightly parts. Part I, price 7d. 
The first number of this encyclopaedia, to which we made 
reference the other week, is now on our table and runs to 
160 pages, which at the price of 7d. fortnightly, works out. at 
v,d. per day. No one desirous of possessing an encyclopaedia 
need be without a valuable book of reference on topics dealing 
with all sorts of information. The book does not appeal to 
any particular class of readers, but to those who desire a. book 
to which they can refer upon any sort of topic. It is, in fact, 
an encyclopaedic dictionary with all the words arranged alpha¬ 
betically, and the most important, information relative to each 
given. Necessarily this is not merely a. dictionary giving 
meanings of words and nothing else, but deals with proper 
names, names of places, names of plants, names of products 
belonging to the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, chemistry, 
and practically every conceivable subject and science. In the 
first number to hand numerous pictures of moderate size are 
given, well-executed but reduced in order to economise space. 
One page gives some of the most, picturesque of the ruined 
abbeys of Britain, while another set gives Abbotsford House 
and Sir Walter Scott’s library. In the first part we note refer¬ 
ences to plants indexed according to their botanical names and 
the important properties they possess or peculiarities men¬ 
tioned or described. Natural history subjects also receive 
ample attention in the way of illustrations. Geography, an¬ 
cient and modem, is illustrated by maps, plans and informa¬ 
tion given concerning the same. The customs of peoples of 
different countries are discussed ; fortifications also receive 
attention both in relation to those of the classics and also in 
the modem civilised countries of Europe and Asia. In re¬ 
lation to ancient and modern rulers, we have an illustration 
of Alexander the Great as represented by a. bust in the Capi- 
toline Museum, Rome, the statue of Alfred the Great, and a 
full-page plate of Queen Alexandra, 
“ Pictorial Practical Tree and Shrub Culture.” By Walter P. 
Wright and W. Dallimore. Illustrated. Cassell and 
Co., Limited, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. 
Price Is. net, or in cloth Is. 6d. net. 
The above book is written in eighteen chapters exclusive of 
the index. The first half of the book deals with the nursery, 
methods of propagation, planting, and general cultivation. 
Needless to. say, these important subjects are well illustrated 
by drawings of various subjects which are likely to exercise 
the care and thoughts of the gardener, whether professional 
or amateur. Cuttings come in for marked attention, and the 
book shows how they are to be made, the difference between 
good and bad cuttings, the plan of inserting them in pans of 
prepared soil, and the method of planting them out in the 
nursery lines after they are rooted. 
It also shows how shrubs can be propagated from soft cut¬ 
tings, half-ripened cuttings, and ripe cuttings after the leaves 
have fallen. The important operation of layering shrubs is 
also illustrated by drawings, the meaning of which can 
scarcely be misunderstood. Some plants are propagated from 
rooted cuttings, and the method of dealing with certain plants 
by this means is also made pictqrially plain. The grafting 
of Clematis on the roots of other species belonging to the same 
genus is also, shown in more than one different way, including 
cleft-grafting, splice-grafting, wedge-grafting, and saddle¬ 
grafting. Good and bad methods of pruning are also repre¬ 
sented, and we should advise urban authorities to study these 
details of a. much misunderstood though simple opeiation of 
the gardener and forester. 
Quite half of the book is devoted to a selection of the best 
trees’ and shrubs arranged in alphabetical order.. For in¬ 
stance, under Acer, we note that a number of the best species 
have been selected and briefly described, the information 
given showing what height they attain and other particulars 
which will form a. guide to planters. 
Following the Kew custom of separating diphthongs into 
their component letters, the word Aesculus and some others 
have given a little trouble. The letters are separated, but both 
of them are given a.s capitals. We find that in the “ Tree and 
Shrub List ” of Kew the diphthong for this word has been re 
tained. We should have not only separated the letters, but 
used the second one as a small letter. Two. vowels coining 
together are just as easily understood to be diphthongs at the 
beginning of a word as at the end of one, and we think, are 
always separated in up-to-date Latin. That, however, has no 
relation to. the utility of the book or the instructions given. 
A list of Bamboos is given, and although the Latin generic 
terms head the three different genera, the alphabetical order 
is determined by the word Bambo- 0 1 . This, we presume, is in 
deference to the non-botanical scholar showing that all these 
three genera are really Bamboos. Many other English names 
are placed across the pages, especially in the case of well- 
known words, but the writers, as a rule, refer to the botanical 
name in alphabetical sequence. Popular names are all very 
jvell in their way, but those who have much to do with pla'nts 
find that the botanical names are the only safe ones to be 
used finally for the purpose of an index. 
Several illustrations of the less common shrubs are. given, 
there being full-page illustrations of Cotoneaster frigida, Cra¬ 
taegus orientails, C. oxyacanthoides fructu luteo,Daboecia. poli- 
folia and some, others. At the end of the book is a useful list 
of Rhododendrons showing which are tender, which ex erg; ecu 
and deciduous. The list of Roses shows a number of wild 
forms that may be grown in the. shrubbery or for other pur¬ 
poses with, advantage. Altogether, a considerable amount of 
information on an extensive list of trees and shrubs for orna¬ 
mental purposes is given. 
“ The Book of the Potato.” A Practical Treatise on the 
History, Propagation and Cultivation of the Potato, in 
Garden and Field for Home Consumption, Market and 
Exhibition, etc. Illustrated. Edited by T. W. Sanders, 
F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 1905. London : W.‘ H. and L. Col- 
lingridge, 148 and 149, Aldersgate Street, E.C. Price 
2 s. 6d. net. 
The Potato, has excited a. great deal of interest during the 
last year or so r owing to the extraordinary “ boom which fol¬ 
lowed the sale at extravagantly high figures of some of the nev 
