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tions of garden and lawn. It differs from other manuals of gardening 

 published by Macmillans in having the chapters arranged so as to 

 describe, week by Week, the work of preparing hotbeds, sowing seeds, 

 caring for growing plants, gathering the crop and storing it for home 

 use. The book contains far too much information for its utility to be 

 confined to the beginner. 



Prof. William Trelease, of the University of Illinois, has prepared 

 a compact booklet of 200 pages on the native and cultivated woody 

 plants of the eastern United States (published by the author, Urbana, 

 lU.). There is a key to the genera embraced, and there are generic 

 diagnoses, together with keys to the species. The book is designed 

 primarily for the requirements of the gardener and the amateur, and 

 will be valuable because of its concise but comprehensive character. 



A text-book for the half-year course in botany in high schools is being 

 prepared by Dr. E. N. Transeau, of Ohio State Universit3^ It will be 

 published by the World Book Company as one of a series of new high 

 school texts which is appearing under the editorship of Prof. John W. 

 Ritchie. 



The paper by Dr. Howard E. Pulling entitled The Rate of Water 

 Movement in Aerated Soils, to which the first prize was given in the 

 soil physics competition instituted by The Plant World, has been pub- 

 lished in the September issue of Soil Science for the present year. 



