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BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



The Mycological Bulletin, which, under the editorship 

 of Professor W. A. Kellerman, is doing excellent work in 

 popularizing the study of fungi, has changed to a semi- 

 monthly issue. 



Last spring Mr. Edwin C. Jellett read a paper on the 

 rare and notable plants of Germantown before the Germ- 

 antown Horticultural Societ^^ This was subsequentl3^ 

 printed in a daily paper and from this type the author has 

 made a most delightful little volume of upwards of a 

 hundred pages, printed on deckle-edged paper and illus- 

 trated with eighteen photogrtiphs of famous persons and 

 scenes connected with the flora of Germantown. The 

 town's title of the most beautiful suburb in America has 

 been earned for it largely by its trees, and these and the 

 people who planted them the author presents to his read- 

 ers in a charming' way. Germantown was settled early in 

 the history of our country by a colony of flower-loving, 

 garden-making Germans and their dccendants have re- 

 tained their love for the beautiful as exi)ressed in flowers 

 and trees. 



