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or has managed to include all the more important terms and 

 has made a very useful book. "British Plant Names and 

 their Derivations" by R. J. Harvey-Gibson, published by A. 

 C. Black and Co., is really a compact little dictionary in which 

 the generic and specific names of British plants are defined 

 and their derivations given. The proper pronunciation of 

 both are indicated. Although it contains but fifty pages, up- 

 wards of 1500 terms are included. The price is $1.00. That 

 of "Plant Names" is $1.25. Both volumes are obtainable in 

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The crow is nobody's fool. "Live and learn" is his 

 motto ; and he does both but especially the former in a way 

 to excite the admiration of all disinterested observers. * * 

 * * He has an unfeigned respect for agriculture and in 

 fact may be said himself to have set up as a gentleman- 

 farmer, letting out his land on shares and seldom failing to 

 get his full half of the crop ; and like the shrewed farmer 

 he is* he insures himself against drouth and other mischances 

 by taking his moiety early in the season. — Bradford TorrEy. 



