Cassell's A B C of Gardening. By Walter P. Wright.
(Cassell and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—This "Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Practical Horticulture" is conveniently arranged in dictionary form. Fruits, flowers, what has to be done with them, for them, and against their enemies ; all the processes of gardening ; the enemies with which the cultivator has to contend,—these things, and others too numerous to specify, are treated. An appendix gives " selections of special flowers " from the aster to the wallflower.— With this may be mentioned Roses : their History, Development, and Cultivation, by the Rev. Joseph H. Pemberton (Longman. and Co., 10s. 6d. net), in which the devotee of this most attrac- tive speciality of horticulture may find all that he wishes to know. Doubtless things have moved on in rose culture as in everything else since the time of Dean Hole, but we must own to a little
surprise to find that his venerabile nomen is without mention either in the preface or the list of " authorities."
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