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straight rows of shade trees, and all such evidences of artificiality, 
to make the foreign plant, when used for ornament, appear to be in its 
natural environment, and to make it seem at home. Asa consequence. 
of these more artistic ideals of the landscape architect it is becoming 
more and more difficult for the young botanist to distinguish between 
plants which are native or naturalized and those which, along park- 
ways, roadsides, etc.,— the only botanizing grounds readily acces- 
sible to many city-dwellers — have been set out for ornamental 
purposes. Few persons, beginning the study of botany, escape the 
perplexing experience of trying in vain to identify some exotic plant by 
à local manual under the impression that it must bea native. Finally, 
after prolonged and vexatious search, the plant is referred to some 
person of greater botanical experience, who with mortifying superi- 
ority pronounces it a foreigner and of course not to be looked for in 
the manual. Then inevitably comes the question we all have been 
asked: "But where can I get an inexpensive book that covers the 
foreign plants as well as the native ones? I mean a book with lots 
of illustrations, and with keys based on the leaves and color of the 
flowers and that sort of thing, not on those miserable placentas and 
arils and hypochils and all those little affairs that nobody can see — 
and, oh yes, the book must be in English, too." To this hitherto 
well nigh unanswerable question, at least a partial reply may now be 
given. "If you are studying the shrubs you will find that Professor 
Apgar's book fairly realizes your ideals."— B. L. R. 
Vol. 12, no. 141, including pages 173 to 192, was issued 17 October, 1910. 
