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IRecent publications. 
The West Michigan Nurseries, Benton Harbor, Michigan, catalogue, 
lists a large variety of fruit and ornamental stock in an attractive 
manner 
Recent Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins 
give interesting studies and illustrations of mushrooms, and present a 
sketch of the origin and progress of agricultural extension work. 
The transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 1896 
have been published. They are of especial interest as being those of a 
society incorporated in 1829. The subject matter is comprehensive. 
The Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association, is doing excellent 
work for its members and the fruit growing interests of the state gen¬ 
erally. The president is George Cruikshanks, of Fitchburg. The 
report of the third annual meeting shows work of a very practical nature. 
Among recent bulletins issued by the U. S. Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, are the following: “ The Camphor Tree ” giving conditions and 
methods for successful cultivation, outlook for future market, etc. 
“Methods of Curing Tobacco,” “ Age of Trees and Time of Blazing 
Determined by Annual Rings,” 
An alphabetically arranged postal and telegraphic list of the nursery¬ 
men, seedsmen, and florists of Great Britian has been issued by B. 
Wynne, 1 Dane’s Inn, Strand, London. It is divided into a general 
list comprising 75 pages, a list of telegraphic addresses, and a London 
trade list. It will prove valuable to all who have dealings with nursery¬ 
men of Great Britain. 
Frederic V. Colville of the Divison of Botany, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, says of the new work on North American flora by Pro¬ 
fessor N. L. Britton, professor of botany at Columbia University, and 
Hon. Addison Brown, president of the Torrey Botanical club : “In the 
line of books bearing the stamp of scientiflc authority, and at the same 
time adapted for popular use, this is unquestionably the best work 
ever issued on the flora of any part of the United States,” The work 
is in three volumes, the first two of which are now ready. Each Imp. 
800, $3. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
The Macmillan Company, New York, announces that the compilation 
of an “Encyclopedia of American Horticulture ” has been begun under 
the editorial supervision of Professor L H. Bailey of the Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. There has never been a really good and adequate presentation 
of American horticulture, and this book proposes to make good the 
want. It is to cover horticulture in its widest sense, pomology, flori¬ 
culture, vegetable gardening, greenhouse matters, ornamental gardens 
ing, the botany of cultivated plants and the like. The work will con¬ 
sist of signed articles by specialists, profusely illustrated, by engrav¬ 
ings made expressly for it. The articles will be arranged alphabeti¬ 
cally, and it is expected that the number of entries will be about 6,000, 
comprised in three large volumes dated 1900. The earnest co-operation 
of every student of horticultural pursuits and every lover of rural life 
is solicited in order that the work may be worthy of the opening of the 
twentieth century. 
There has just been issued by the well-known French editor of 
scientific works. Octave Doin, 8 Place de I’OdSon, Paris, a “Manuel 
Pratique et Raisonne des Cultiu-es Speciales; Plantes racines, Cereales, 
Plantes fourrag^res, Plantes industrielles, Assolements, Prairies; redige 
d’apr^s les sources les plus autorisees et base sur de nombreuses 
experiences par Paul de Vuyst, Docteur en droit, Ingenieur agricole, 
Inspecteur adjoint de I’Agriculture. Un volume in-12 de 264 pages 
avec 29 figures dans le texte; prix. 4 fr. The work is a more or less com¬ 
prehensive treatise on the preparation of the soil, the growth and treat¬ 
ment of the potato, beet, carrot, parsnip, turnip,wheat, rye, oats, barley, 
clover,bearded vetch, spurrey, maize and various forage crops; also flax, 
hops and tobacco; a succession of crops and the treatment of meadows. 
Diseases of the plants named are discussed and remedies are cited. It 
is interesting to note the French method of agriculture as detailed in 
this work, in the introduction to which the author very properly 
declares that the first object has been to make the book entirely 
practical. 
Among the many horticultural publications of 1897 none is more 
timely than the excellently arranged volume entitled “The Water 
Garden ”, by William Tricker who has spent a lifetime in the propaga¬ 
tion and arrangement of aquatics. This work embraces information on 
the construction of ponds, adapting natural streams, planting, hybrid¬ 
izing, seed saving, propagation, construction of aquatic houses, winter¬ 
ing, correct designing and planting of banks and margins and cultural 
directions for all ornamental aquatics. It is profusely illustrated with 
nine plates, eighteen full page descriptive views and numerous other 
sketches in the text. There is a growing interest in the culture of 
aquatics and this book will do much to extend the desire to incorporate 
this important branch of garden craft in plans for the ornamentation of 
public parks and squares and private estates. A noticeable feature of 
Mr. Tricker’s book is the attention paid to the small as well as the 
large interests in this connection. In his preface the author says ; “Of 
late years interest in the cultivation of aquatic plants has grown 
enormously ; not only are Water Lily ponds now features of our pub¬ 
lic parks and larger private gardens, but even in the back yard of the 
suburban resident one can frequently find a few tubs or a small tank 
where the cultivation of Water Lilies and of the Lotus is indulged.’ 
Much attention is paid in this work to the surroundings of the water 
garden, the arrangement of the banks of the ponds. This is a most 
important part of the general plan. The book gives a descriptive list 
of Water Lilies with cultural memoranda, including hardy Nymphaeas; 
tender Nymphaeas, day blooming and night blooming ; Victoria and 
Euryale ; Nelumbiums, also miscellaneous aquatic plants, ornamental 
grasses, bamboos, orchids, pitcher plants, ferns and hardy perennial 
plants and trees for margins of ponds and lakes and moist ground. 
The illustrations are pai'ticularly attractive. Cloth boards, large 8vo., 
pp. 120. |2. New York ; A. T. De La Mare Ptg. & Pubg. Co. 
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