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entire list will prove of value. The Committee is now at work 

 on a list of common names to be used and the editor of this 

 magazine has been invited to assist in this work. 



A second printing of Julia W. Henshaw's "Wild- 

 flowers of the North American Mountains" has just 

 appeared from the press of Robert McBride & Co., New 

 York. This book was originally issued in two bindings, 

 one for use in Canada and the other for the United States, 

 the latter is doubtless more familiar to American readers 

 under the title of "Mountain Wildflowers of America." 

 The new issue is very similar in appearance to the old. It 

 covers 375 pages and contains 20 colored plates as well as 

 G5 others in black and white which are exceptionally fine 

 examples of their kind. The flowers, as in so many popu- 

 lar manuals, are arranged according to color, and to these 

 a number of ferns have been added. There is also a so- 

 called Key but this is better called a conspectus since it 

 would be practically impossible to trace an unknown 

 specimen by its use. In the matter devoted to each 

 species, the plant is first described in rather technical 

 language and then follows considerable matter of a more 

 popular nature in which a number of related plants not 

 described in the text are mentioned. To all interested in 

 naming the conspicuous plants of the northwest, the book 

 should be an invaluable aid. The price is $3.00 net. 



"Around the Year in the Garden" by Frederick Frye 

 Rockwell, is a different garden book from the usual run of 

 such publications. It begins with the first week in January 

 and runs through the year, discussing under each successive 

 week the things about the garden which need attention at 

 the time. It is not one of the "how-to-make-a-garden" 

 books exactly, though one who reads it carefully should 

 know what proper garden procedure is, nor is it a mere 

 calendar of garden operations for each week in the year. So 



