— SEE 
1910] Book Notice 207 
Rooms were opened to the Club for an exhibition of fresh flowers and 
mounted specimens. After an informal social session a short business 
meeting was held and twelve new members were elected. 
Wednesday forenoon, July 5, was spent partly on the Billings’ estate 
in the inspection of the formal gardens, glass houses, wild fernery and 
nursery, and partly in botanizing on Mt. Tom. A bountiful lunch was 
served at the home of Prof. and Mrs. Frederic Lee. 
In the afternoon a drive was taken to the Eshqua Bogs in Hartland. 
Here were fine specimens of Lycopodium sabinaefolium Willd. and 
L. tristachyum Pursh and some of the rarer orchids. Supper was 
served by the Hartland Nature Club at Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Morgan’s 
home, “The Highlands." Afterwards a Life Membership Circle was 
formed with six members, which was later increased to eight. The 
proceeds from this are to form a fund for the Club. 
In the evening a lecture was given in the Opera House on “Our 
Native Wild Flowers” by Dr. N. L. Britton, the noted botanist. 
This was splendidly illustrated by lantern slides from the Van Brunt 
collection. 
Wednesday morning, July 6, a drive was taken to North Bridge- 
water to see the Male Fern, Aspidium Filix-mas (L.) Sw. This, 
the third station for this fern in the state was discovered by Miss 
Mabel A. Strong. Here was also collected a new hybrid Aspidium, 
A, Filix-mas X marginale. 
The meeting was one of the most interesting the Club has had and 
the efforts of the resident members of the Botanical Club and the 
members of the Hartland Nature Club were appreciated. 
The next meeting will be held at Burlington, Vt., in Jan., 1911.— 
Nerte F. FLYNN. 
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS OF THE UNITED Srares.'— Forty or fifty 
years ago the limits between native vegetation on the one hand and 
flower beds, borders, and ornamental shrubbery on the other, were 
pretty sharp and definite. The whole trend of modern horticulture 
and landscape gardening, however, has been to efface these boundaries 
as completely as possible, to do away with the formal flower bed, 
1 Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated), a posthumous work 
` by the late Professor Austin Craig Apgar, edited by his daughter Ada Apgar Draycott. 
Octavo, 352 pages, 4 plates, and 621 text figures. American Book Company, New 
York, etc. $1.50. 
