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($3.50), is one of the best for beginners, and Lounsberry's 

 "Guide to the Trees" ($3) is another. Keeler's "Our North- 

 ern Shrubs" ($3) and "Our Northern Trees" ($3) are also 

 excellent. Apgar's "Shrubs of the United States" ($1.60) 

 includes cultivated as well as wild species and Trelease's 

 "Winter Botany" ($1.25) and "Materials for Decorative 

 Gardening" ($1.25) include the trees as well. Blakeslee and 

 Jarvis' "Trees in Winter" ($3.50) is good for winter botan- 

 izing. 



For those interested in economic botany, Sargent's 



"Plants and their Uses" ($1.60) and Saunders' "Useful 

 Wild Plants of the United States" ($3.50) are recommended. 

 To these may be added Harshberger's "Pastoral and Agricul- 

 tural Botany" ($2), and Robbins' "Botany of Crop Plants" 

 ($2.25). Sturtevant's magnificent volume entitled "Notes on 

 Edible Plants" is the last word in this line. It is published 

 by the State of New York. Lovell's "Flower and the Bee" 

 ($2) may be added for those interested in pollination. For 

 the myths and legends connected with the plants one should 

 consult Beal's "Flower-lore and Legend" ($1.40) and Skin- 

 ner's "Myths of Flowers, Fruits and Plants" ($1.50). 



The standard dictionary of plant terms is Jackson's 

 "Dictionary of Botanical Terms" ($3.50) though Hender- 

 son's book of the same name ($4.50) has various features to 

 recommend it. Zimmer's book, also with the same title 

 ($2) is a good but cheaper book and Harvey-Gibson's "Brit- 

 ish Plant Names and their Derivations" ($1) and T^indsay's 

 "Plant Names" ($1.25) are desirable. 



Garden books, possessing somewhat more of a utilitarian 

 character, are rather more numerous than other plant books. 

 Their contents are naturally varied and it is difficult to make 

 a representative selection. Three that may be recommended 



