(1) The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source (2) Commercial Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Treatise for Market Gardeners, Market Growers, Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Growers, Nurserymen, &c.

Abstract

(1) THERE are men who, having attained to wealth and fame by the agency of some humble instrument, basely repudiate and kick over the ladder by which they have risen. Not so the authors of the first book on our list. The potato has “made” them, and in return they proceed to “make” the potato. A large number of men have at times written about this vegetable, and extracts from their books and papers occupy a very large proportion of the volume. The food value, methods of propagating, cultivating; harvesting, and selling, air receive attention, but the authors are so evidently enthusiastic, and discourse so eloquently on the merits of their subject, that we are carried along with them, and forget that, after all, they are only talking about potatoes, and not about alpine plants or roses.

(1) The Potato: A Compilation of Information from Every Available Source.

By E. H. Grubb W. S. Guilford. Pp. vii + 545. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 8s. 6d. net.

(2) Commercial Gardening: A Practical and Scientific Treatise for Market Gardeners, Market Growers, Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Growers, Nurserymen, &c.

By many practical Specialists, under the Editorship of John Weathers. In four volumes. Vol. i., pp. xiii + 239 + plates; vol. ii., pp. xii + 235 + plates; vol. iii., pp. xii + 240 + plates; vol. iv., pp. xii + 244 + plates. (London: The Gresham Publishing Co., 1913.) Price 36s. net, the four volumes.