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larged by George H. Clark. For sale, by single copies onlv, at 

 the office of the Superintendent of Stationery Government 

 Printing Bureau, Ottawa. Price $1.00. 



We were particularly pleased to receive recently the second 

 edition of this most useful publication. There are a number of 

 splendid new features which are at once seen in a hasty glance 

 through the book. In the first place it is of a more convenient 

 size and the Table of Contents at the beginning is a useful addi- 

 tion. The general make up of the work is an improvement on the 

 first edition, the type is better and the arrangement of the 

 subject matter all that could be desired. Twenty full page addi- 

 tional coloured plates are included, the work of Mr. Criddle. As 

 Mr. Clark says, considerable re-arrangement of the matter was 

 made necessary in this second edition in order that the various 

 plant families, genera and species might be adjusted to conform 

 with the recommendations of the International Botanical 

 Congress at Vienna and now generally adopted by botanists. 

 In revising the descriptions of plants and seeds technical terms 

 have been avoided wherever possible. Many most interesting 

 quotations apropos of the subject are used throughout the book 

 to complete pages. In the Preface it is stated that "Farm Weeds 

 of Canada was one of the last of the many contributions to 

 agriculture from the late Dr. James Fletcher. It is desired that this 

 second edition of the book will further perpetuate to his memory 

 that large measure of appreciation of his unselfish personality 

 and zeal for useful service which he so richly deserved." This 

 new edition of Farm Weeds is a particularly valuable work and 

 is without doubt one of the best, if not the best. Government 

 publication which has yet appeared in any countr}-. The 

 Dominion Department of Agriculture is fully alive to the enorm- 

 ous annual losses caused in Canada by Weeds. The first edition 

 of Farm Weeds was eagerly sought after by farmers and others 

 throughout Canada, and has already been of inestimable value 

 to the country. The second edition revised and enlarged will 

 doubtless too soon be exhausted. The nominal price fixed for 

 its sale will restrict its distribution to those who will preserve 

 and make good use of it. The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club is 

 specially interested in this book, in that Mr. George H. Clark. 

 Seed Commissioner of the federal Department of Agriculture, 

 and Mr. Norman Criddle who made the drawings, are both 

 members. Other members of the Club too, who assisted and 

 whose names we notice in the Preface are Mr. George Michaud, 

 Prof. John Macoun. Mr. T. G. Raynor, Mr. J. H. Grisdale. Mr. 

 T N Willing, and Mr James Murrav. 



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