We have received the second half-yearly volume (July-Decem- ber, 1901)
of Country Life (20 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 21s.) It is not easy to give a compendious account of a folio volume containing between eight and nine hundred pages, and a multitude of illustrations. It must suffice to say that Country Life amply fulfils its promise of being "the journal for all interested in country life and country pursuits." Sport of all kinds, natural history, the art of gardening, specimens of old houses, are among the subjects with which it deals. It is certainly a most comprehensive and most interesting periodical.—With this we may mention The Book of the Apple, by H. H. Thomas (John Lane, 2s. 6d.), the sixth volume in the series of "Hand- books of Practical Gardening." The great difficulty in apple- growing is to keep up the supply throughout the year. Of course, the problem is as nearly solved as is practically needed when you can keep apples till the time when imported spring growths come in. But how few, even with large gardens, can manage this! There are apples which will last till the new crop comes in, but they are rare, and in the multitude of new varieties apt to be forgotten. Of easily obtainable sorts the Northern Greening is perhaps the best for long keeping. This is a most useful volume which every grower, whether for his own use or for the market, should consult.
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