The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

most probably the native form of our
great food plant. The origin of maize,
of the other cereals, of all our cultivated
fruits, garden vegetables, sugar cane, of
cotton, hemp, flax and other fibre
plants, etc., etc., is worked out with
infinite research and care by our author.
In many cases only high degree of
probability is reached, but it can GER
tainly be said that here we have collected
together all the facts and the closely
reasoned analogies by which this most
interesting question of origins can be
traced out. The work is one of the
International Science Series, and is pub
lished in neat octave of four hundred
sixty-eight pages by d. Appleton q
Co., 1, 2 and Bond street, New York.
Price, free by mail, $500.
The next book we will call the read
er's attention to is
THE AMERICAN FRUIT CULTURIsT,
by J. J. Thomas, a new and thoroughly
revised edition. This invaluable work
was first published some thirty years
ago. 1t has undergone several revis-
ions, and the edition of 1868 has been
with us book of such constant refer
ence and use that we are very glad to
have it replaced by the last revision,
Just issued, in which the whole subject
matter has been brought up to date, in
Guiding all the newer varieties, such as
the Wealthy Yellow Transparent, McIn-
tosh Red, Mann, Canada Baldwin APP
pies, and many others-including three
of our own introduction-the Magog
Redstreak, SCOTS Winter and Fameuse
Sucree. Many are deferred from buy
ing Downing's encyclopedia work on
account of its cost, and such will find in
Thomas Fruit Culturist, in more
compact form, at half the price, sub
stantially the same information. The
work contains (besides the full and clear
instructions given for the growth, cul-
ture and management of all sorts of
nursery stock, descriptions of the vari-
cites of every species, the care of or
chards, etc., etc. most valuable in
structions as to the keeping and mar
keting of fruits, the destruction of
insects, definition of terms, treatment
of diseases and injuries, descriptions of
the most improved implements, soils,
manures, location of orchards, the prac-
teal botany of fruit-bearing plants-all
those things, in short, which the fruit
grower must know in order to succeed
in his business, and make it profitable
and pleasant. All this is given in SIM
Pile and plain language, with all the lit
tie details so important to beginners.
and so often forgotten or neglected by
older growers. 1t is a book that ii
seems to us every fruit-grower would
profit by reading through once every
year, at least. We urge upon our fruit.
growing readers, therefore, the imme-
date purchase of this new edition of a
most invaluable and trustworthy publ.
cation. 1t is sent free, by mail, fol
$500 by the publishers, William Wood
g. Co., So and So Lafayette Place, New
York. We should have mentioned
above that it is fully illustrated with
carefully drawn and well-engraved cuts
to the number of five hundred nineteen
showing not only the figures of the
fruits, but all the processes of work
implements, etc., etc.
Another very valuable and timely
book is
THE CANADIAN FOREsTER's ILLUS
TRATED GUIDE,
by j. G. Chapais, Esq, of the Quebec
Department of Agriculture. 1t is an
octave of one hundred ninety-nine pages
illustrated with one hundred twenty-siS
fine engravings on wood, and giving full
details relating to the growth, care and
management of all the important forest
trees of the Dominion Of Canada. II
fills the bill exactly for all Vermonters
who are interested in forestry. Mr.
Chapais (whom we have frequently had
the pleasure of meeting in our visits tc
the Canadian Horticultural and Agri
cultural Exhibitions) is most pains
taking and instructive writer, whose
sole purpose in this publication is evi
IDENTITY to do good to his readers and the
country. We have seldom met with 6
work so well adapted to its purpose, OF
one that we could so heartily commend
to our readers. 1t will be sent by mail
in paper covers, by j. A. Langlais, St
Joseph street, st. Roch, Quebec, Canada
for seventy-fve cents, or in cloth binding
for $1.00. We strongly recommend the
latter, as paper covers render book OF
little value for the library shelf, and Of
far too slight durability for a work Of
so much value as this.
The Mann Apple.
Mr.. Philip Roberts of Middlesex, VT.
kindly sends ms n specimen of this new