Handy Book of Fruit-Culture under Glass. By David Thomson- (Blackwood.)—Fortunate
people, who can indulge in the luxury of glass, can here learn from a most experienced teacher all that they need to know. The author tells us that "he has kept specially in view the requirements of inexperienced amateurs who wish to superintend their own fruit houses, and of young gardeners entering on the study of their profession." The Pine-Apple, the Vine, the Peach and Nectarine, the Fig, the Melon, the Strawberry, the Cucumber, are discussed in separate. chapters, and a Calendar gives a risme' of the whole, with all the various operations arranged under the headings of their proper months. This is, we doubt not, an excellent book, and it has certainly the merit of compactness and brevity, extending to little more than three hundred moderate-sized octavo pages, an allowance of space which some writers on gardening are quite capable of expending upon grape-vines alone.
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