14 AUGUST 1897, Page 25

The Forcing Book. " Garden Craft Series." By L H. Bailey.

(Macmillan and Co )—This little primer concerns itself with the art of growing vegetables successfully all the winter under glass. It seems to give clear and practical directions as to the practise of a very delicate and difficult art. It seems curious, considering the diversity of climate in difftrent parts of the United States, that it should pay to cultivate vegetable crops under such artificial conditions rather than transport them from Southern States, where they could be grown with comparative ease.