12 OCTOBER 1901, Page 25

In the useful series of "Handbooks of Practical Gardening "

(John Lane) we have the third volume of The Book of the Grape, by H. W. Ward (2s. 6d. net), following " The Book of the Asparagus" and "The Book of the Greenhouse." The general editor, Mr. H. Roberts, prefixes a chapter on the "Decorative Value of the Vice."