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BOOK REVIEWS. 



Encyclopedia of Horticulture. By L. H. Bailey. Vol. H, 



E.-M. New York, Macmillan & Co. 



The second voliiiiie of Professor Bailey's monumental work, 

 carrying it through the letter M, maintains the same standard of excel- 

 lence as the first. The profusion of illustrations adds materially to the 

 attractions of such a book, and Professor Bailey may well point with 

 pride to the fact that the reader will always find at least one cut on 

 whatev^er page he may open. 



An encyclopedia or dictionary of any description is essentially a 

 work of reference, and one therefore expects to find a citation of all 

 words or topics germane to the general subject. In looking for a given 

 genus, therefore, one naturally expects a short account, but it is an 

 agreeable surprise to find that in most cases the author and the spe- 

 cialists associated with him have presented in addition to the horti- 

 cultural treatment, the sketch, at least, of a systematic arrangement of 

 the principal species. Botanists and gardeners will await with interest 

 the completion of the work. — i.\ L. P. 



A Guide to the Trees. By Alice Lownsberry. Illustrated with 

 64 colored and 164 black-and-white plates and 54 diagrams by 

 Mrs. Ellis Rowan and an introduction by Dr. N. L. Britton. 

 New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Co. $2.50. 

 This handsome book is a companion volume to the author's Guide 

 to the Wild Flowers, which we had the pleasure of noticing in these 

 pages some months ago. It is arranged on the same plan, that is 

 according to the habitat in which the various species of trees are nor- 

 mally found. Thus we have trees preferring to grow near water — as 

 in swamps and by running streams; in moist soil — as in lowlands and 

 meadows; in rich soil — as in forests and thickets; in sandy or rocky 

 soil — as on hillsides and barrens; in light or dry soil — as upland places 

 and roadsides. We can not but feel that the line between certain of 

 these groups will be a hard one for the beginner to draw, but if a par- 

 ticular species is not found in one group the student must look in the 

 one next most likely, and so on until he comes to it. The information 

 under each species is full and satisfactory, giving the common and 

 scientific names, family, shape, height, range and time of blooming as 

 well as much popular instruction. The book is fully and beautifully 

 illustrated and should prove a powerful factor in increasing a popular 

 knowledge of our trees. — F. H. K. 



