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French and the uther.s have a b^uniniary in that language. 



* * * Walter Stager whose iris book has been favorably 

 received by liie imblic has reissued a small pamphlet on 

 "llardx Flowering Shrubs." * * * j^ ^^.H^ what kind to 

 plant and how to care of them. * * * Dp j; j? Payson 

 has issued another monograph of western plants. * * * 

 This time it is Thelypodium and its immediate allies. * * * 

 Dr. Will Sayer Moffatt has di.stributed Part 2 of the "Higher 

 Fungi of the Chicago region." * * * j^ includes the 

 geasters and puff-balls and illustrates mcjst of the species. 



* * * Of the giant puff-ball, which he calls Calvatia 

 boz-ista he says "No specimen of unusual size has been re- 

 ported from the vicinity of Chicago." * * * Well, it all 

 depends upon one's idea of size. * * * ^ specimen sixty- 

 nine inches in circumference frcMii this region was figured in 

 .liin-ricaii JU) la nisi for January 1906. * * * We always 

 thought that was some puff-ball! * * * Dr. Moffatt 

 should read his Botanist more carefully! 



What one gets out of a garden depends somewhat on 

 who he is. Some get only vegetables wherewith to promote 

 their i)hysical well-being, others return with flowers to mini- 

 ster to their sense of beauty and still others, though these are 

 greatly in the minority, return with new ideas to delight them- 

 selves and others. To the latter class belongs Charlotte 

 Rider Lomas the anther of "Garden Whimsies" recently 

 issued by the Macmillan Company, who has written an en- 

 tire book about gardens in general and her own garden in 

 particular without a word about planting, cultivating, or the 

 allied subject that all other authors of garden liooks feel 

 compelled to put into their volumes. The book does not 

 even contain a description of the flowers usuallv found in 

 gardens though it deals with all of them. The title of the 



