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FOR many years there was a noteworthy dearth of books in English dealing generally with agricultural methods in the tropics and subtropics, and affording a concise summary of our knowledge of the plants of those regions. The information, it is true, was available in published form, but scattered in handbooks and pamphlets on particular plants and subjects, or buried in the files of numerous botanical and agricultural journals, so that those not actually engaged in the subject often found considerable and at times insuperable difficulties in obtaining a good, practical account of, for example, the principal fruits or the fibre-producing plants of warm countries.
Southern Agriculture.
By F. S. Earle. Pp. vi+297. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 5s. net.
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FREEMAN, W. Southern Agriculture . Nature 79, 186 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079186a0
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