By P. Barry. A new edition, revised and brought down to date, by the author. New York: Orange Judd Company. 1883. The march of knowledge about fruit, and especially in fruit culture, has been very great of late years, and a work which proposes to keep up with this rapid march, and tell us all that it is im-portant to know, will be very welcome to orchard-ists everywhere. No one is better able to tell of this advance than Mr. Barry - and the great favor with which the original was received, will make this new edition welcome everywhere.

A Book About Roses : - By S. Reynolds Hole. New York: Wm. S. Gottsberger, 1883. An English book which has seen seven editions in its own country, is surely worth re-printing in America, where the rose is such an especial favorite. Of course there are some suggestions, well adapted to the Old World, which will be of no value in this but the book is so pleasantly written, that any one who loves a rose will be interested in reading it, though not growing a single plant. It is simply enjoying a bouquet of "buds" to read it, aside from its practical value. It comes to us through E. Claxton & Co., Philadelphia.