196 THE PLANT WORLD 



NOTES ON CURRENT 

 LITERATURE 



The Catalogue of liardy trees and plants lately received from 

 Messrs. Tliomas Meeliaii & Sons contains a number of inviting pages 

 for those interested in landscape gardening. 



We learn from the Journal of the Neio York Boianical Garden that 

 the expedition of Dr. Britton and Mr. Cowell to St. Kitts, of the British 

 West Indies, has proved highly successful. A large number of seeds 

 and living plants, and 1200 herbarium specimens have already been 

 received at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Professor Edward L. Greene has published the second of his 

 essays on "Some Literary Aspects of American Botany," in which lie 

 continues his criticisms of some of the titles used for American serials, 

 and administers a reprimand to a luckless young author who in the 

 title of one of his unpublished papers was careless enough to use the 

 word "asymmetry " in place of "irregularity." The influence of these 

 entertaining papers upon the deplorable tendency to looseness of 

 speech and writing exhibited by so many of our professional botanists 

 cannot fail to be excellent, and we hope that the author intends to 

 continue them in the same vein. 



The Forester for September is an unusually interesting number. 

 It contains a report of the meeting of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion recently held in Denver, an outline of the forestry work which is 

 being undertaken in the Philii)pines, and the first part of a paper on 

 The Open Piange and the Irrigation Farmer, which was read before the 

 Association by Professor R. H. Forbes, Director of the Arizona Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. Professor Forbes points out the great 

 importance of conserving and encouraging the native vegetation, espe- 

 cially the grasses, which are such an important feature and bear such 

 a direct relation to the conservation of moisture. 



