Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-01


ment Of higher qualifications for customers
men. th) Control of margin buying by limiting
speculative credit Cd Control Of short selling
by limiting its volume in individual issues in
any single session. Cd Separation Of trader and
broker functions in respect to specialists. ~
Full publicity all pool activities O Elk
tension Of principles Of securities act in respect
to publication of financial news. (m) State
licensing of investment counsels. (n) Com
pilation and publication Of additional statisti-
cal data bearing security markets" In view
Of the Senate investigation Of the stock market
and the regulatory bill pending in Congress
this book is most timely.
BUMBLEBEES AND THEIR WAYS. BY Otto
Emil Plath, M A. Sc. d. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
THERE are true bumblebees and shams, that
u.s. those Of parasitic species. DR.. Plath,
professor of biology in Boston University. knows
all about the habits and life history Of both
kinds and gives much interesting information
in this well written and attractively illustrated
book. Members Of nature study clubs viii wish
to possess It. Bumbebee colonies are sparsely
populated, as contrasted with the congested
colonies Of the honeybees, but their individual
citizens are robustly large and 50 are easy TO
study. The complete social development Of
fetal conditions. from its inception In the
fertilized queen TO its dissolution in the late
Summer or Autumn" DR. Plath says that his
interest in bumblebees began during his boy
hood IN Central Europe, when he discovered
that bumblebees make luscious honey. He
soon tried the experiment Of transferring
bumblebee colonies to artificial doniciles (cigar
boxes), where he could have all the honey he
wanted. His studies began at that time and
have continued ever since.
His scientific viewpoint is accompanied and
melloved by the imagination Of poet. He
notices the rich black and yellow plush COS
TUNES Of the queens as they sip nectar from
the Spring catkins, the beautiful circling flight
of q queen after she has found the site for
her nest before she has begun to build, the
sad disintegration of the colony with the death
of the old queen, when the scayenger beetles
and wax-moth larvae consume the last treas
ures of the once prosperous nest. As an OBJ
server with a purpose, he has noticed many
episodes of bumblebee life which the person
with eyes unopened by interest and knowledge
would never sea terrified queen rushing out
OF the silk lined hole of a black spider which
she has entered by mistake. with the spider.
of course, in full pursuit; evidences Of memory
in bumblebees, an Antherophagus beetle lying
in wait, with open mandibles, in hollyhock
blossom for an unwary bumbebee, not to de-
stroy him, but to fasten on his back and be
carried into the colony, there to cause whole
sale destruction. "Bumblebees and Their Ways"
is scientific book. but it is also story book.
GARDENS AND GARDENING. The Studio
Gardening Annual, 1884. Edited by F. A.
Mercer. New York: The Studio Publica-
lions.
~ STUDY of other peoples gardens is one
n OF the best methods by which the gar
den lover learns new ideas and treatments"
This handsome volume with it's wealth Of illus
trations from photographs gives innumerable
suggestions for either large or small gardens.
For descriptions and Illustrations, gardens Of
many countries are drawn upon-Great Britain.
Germany, France, Italy Holland, South Africa.
as well as America. Two beautiful illustra-
lions are views of the garden at Chilterns Wynn
berg, the home of J. B. Taylor of Cape Town.
The garden lies at the foot of Table Noun
tain. Following the lovely views Of gardens Of
other countries are articles on American wild
shrubs and dwarf trees and their use in land
scape architecture, the sunk garden, biennials
and their uses and cultivation, the green
house and its uses and the ornamental value
of fruit. In the last section there is view
of gourds trained a trellis so that their
yellow and brown globes hang like lamps
overhead" also unusually beautiful view
of an arcade of poisoning plum trees in the
Rossi gardens at Bergamo Italy. The book
is one to fascinate any garden lover.
THE SYCAMORE TREE BY Elizabeth Cam
bridge. New York: G. p. Putnams Sons
THE sycamore tree shading the room where
Howell was born was of itself no finer than
many other trees, but for Howell it repre-