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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
IRecent publications. 
Root cellars or caves will serve for growing mushrooms in winter, or 
an ordinary cellar, if the compost is properly prepared before the beds 
are made. The July Delineator has an excellent article on mushroom 
culture, in which the statement is made that more failures are traced 
to using poor or improperly prepared manure, than any other cause. 
A description is given of how the beds should be prepared, the spawn 
set and developed until the time for gathering. 
Professor Bailey, who recently completed the four volumes of the 
Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, is about to begin work on 
another great work—a Cyclopedia of Agriculture. This will include 
four volumes, each covering one of the four general headings into 
which the subject will be divided. It will differ from the Cyclopedia 
of American Horticulture in that it will be a book of general instruc¬ 
tion, rather than a reference work. The subjects treated will not be 
arranged alphabetically, but there will be a comprehensive index. In 
it we may look for an elaboration of Professor Bailey’s terse expression, 
“ My aim in life is the spiritualization of agriculture.” 
“Country Life in America” for July contains as usual an array of 
half-tone engravings of the highest class, depicting out-door life in 
many attractive forms. There are articles on architectural details in 
the making of a country home ; photographs and descriptions of 
ponies and beagles and the Japanese garden in America, and the ruby- 
throat bumming bird; an inte r esting article on Wyndhurst, the pictur¬ 
esque summer home of Mr. John Sloane, of New York, overlooking 
the far-famed Laurel lake and backed by October mountains in the 
Berkshires ; and a calendar for vacation days in July. Professor L. H. 
Bailey, the editor of this attractive magazine, has an editorial on “The 
New South ” in which all nurserymen will be interested, and coming 
fresh from the instructive address by Professor Bailey at the Milwaukee 
convention, the members of the American Association of Nurserymen 
will no doubt desire to hear further from the professor on the subject 
of country life. 
The foremost place among periodicals purporting to present matters 
of record is easily held by the “ American Monthly Review of Re¬ 
views.” The progress of the world, reviewed by the editor, Albert 
Shaw, has set the pace for similar endeavors in other magazines whose 
editors have appreciated the value of such a summary. This and 
other marked features of the “Review of Reviews” have caused 
many readers of this magazine to substitute its bound numbers for the 
annual encyclopedias to good purpose. Indeed, a volume of the 
“ Review of Reviews ’’ is a history of current events. The character 
sketches, the extracts from leading articles of the month, the reviews 
and indexes of periodicals and the illustrations are interesting, instruc¬ 
tive and time-saving features that appeal to all classes of readers 
and especially to the busy man. $2.50 per year. New York : Review 
of Review's. Co. 
“The Brook Book”—A first acquaintance with the brook and its 
inhabitants through the changing year—is the title of a particularly 
attractive little volume by Mary Rogers Miller, lecturer on nature 
study at Cornell University. The reader is introduced in the most en¬ 
tertaining manner to the busy life of the denizens of the brook. He is 
amazed at the wonderful things of nature that he has missed, though 
they have literally been under his very eyes a hundred times. A brook 
is one of the most living and companionable features of the wild land¬ 
scape ; and few people, even the most ardent nature-lovers, realize 
what an endlessly interesting study its changes and its throbbing life 
afford. Mrs. Miller follows a typical stream through the year; the 
activity and bustle of its waters and their inhabitants in the spring ; 
the gradual warming of the water and awakening of the swarm of in¬ 
sect life ; the hot days of summer when the fish go into deep holes for 
coolness ; the coming of winter and the ice covering, which sheets the 
edges of the stream and glasses the rocks. It is a fascinating subject 
which the author (well-known as a teacher, lecturer, and writer con¬ 
nected with the Nature Study Bureau at Cornell) handles with much 
ability. With 16 full page half tones and about 50 text cuts. $1.35 
net. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co. 
Each succeeding issue of that thoroughly up-to-date magazine, 
“The World’s Work,” increases the wonder of its readers in the re¬ 
markable array of intensely interesting articles and illustrations that 
seem to have escaped the attention of other magazine makers. The 
July issue bristles with news features of world-wide interest. Among 
the principal articles that arrest the attention at even a cursory glance 
are those on the destruction in Martinique, the new naval academy at 
Annapolis, an educational experiment with cannibals, how telegraph 
cables unite the world, an explanation of the work done at the White 
House, and pictures and sketches of living historians. By special 
permission of the director of the United States Geological Survey, 
Bailey Willis geologist, contributes an article on the Northwest boun¬ 
dary, describing the great forests and mountains on the forty-ninth 
parallel, a little known region of great scenic beauty. There are 
timely articles on the revival of skilled handiwork, the real issue of 
the coal strike, and the Philippine problem. The novel idea of lifting 
up the liquor saloon is discussed along lines of actual experiment by 
William H. Tolman, secretary of the League for Social Service, New 
York; and there is an interesting summary of the expressions of col¬ 
lege presidents showing the art of praising living men. The illustra¬ 
tions of the articles in “ The World’s Work” are exceptionally fine. 
The publication is characteristic of the high grade of printing pro¬ 
duced by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 
American Horticultural Manual— Part I. of this new work, by 
Professor J. L. Budd, of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Me¬ 
chanic Arts, assisted by Professor N. E. Hansen, of the South Dakota 
Agricultural College, has been issued by the publishers, John Wiley & 
Sons, New York. The sub-title indicates the nature of the work : 
“ Comprising the leading principles and practices connected with the 
propagation, culture and improvement of fruits, nuts, ornamental 
trees, shrubs and other plants in the United States and Canada. That 
this manual is up-to-date and quite comprehensive is shown by the 
following summary of the chapter headings : Seeds and Seed-growth; 
Seed Germination and Seedling-growth ; Stem and Top-growth, Ap¬ 
pendages and Circulation ; Flowers and Fruits ; Modes and Principles 
of Propagation ; Propagation by Inarching and from Woody and Imma¬ 
ture Cuttings ; Propagation by Budding and Grafting ; Some Leading 
Principles of Fruit-growing and Development; Transplanting Fruits 
and Ornamentals ; Orchard Management; Pruning of Trees and Orna¬ 
mentals ; Spraying for Insects and Fungi ; The Apple, Pear and 
Quince ; The Cherry, Plum, Prune, Apricot and Peach ; Some Sub¬ 
tropical Orchard Fru Is ; The American Grape ; The Raspberry and 
Blackberry ; The Strawberry and Its Cuiture; The Currant and 
Gooseberry ; Promising Wild Fruits Worthy of Some Attention ; Some 
Leading Nut Trees ; Planning and Planting the Home Groonds ; Some 
of the Leading Lawn and Park Trees; Ornamental Shrubs and Vines ; 
Perennials and Bulbs ; The Vegetable and Small Fruit Garben ; Irriga¬ 
tion. It will be seen that most of the topics in horticulture have been 
touched upon and that the book will prove valuable in many places. 
It is illustrated with more than one hundred figures and explanatory 
designs. The names of the authors bespeak the merit of the work. It 
is announced that there is in preparation part II of the American Hor¬ 
ticultural Manual, which will deal with Systematic Pomology. Cloth, 
$1.50. New York: John Wiley & Sons. London: Chapman* 
Hall, Limited. 
AS TO PEACH BUD STANDS. 
Berlin, Md., June 20. —J. G. Harrison & Sons: “We 
hear a number of complaints as to the stand of peach buds. 
We find all of our August budding of last season very good, 
but the later budding is not so good, and this happens with us 
about nine times out of ten. We think August the best month 
for budding peach. We started some fifteen years ago budding 
at first only a few thousand for orchard planting for our 
orchards and have budded over two million some seasons. 
Our seedlings are later this season from being planted too 
deep. They promise to be a fair block, now that we are 
getting frequent rains. Apple stock is growing well.” 
