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values of the landscape and expresses it in a most attractive 

 manner. The publishers have seconded the author by giving 

 the text an appropriate setting, which is further beautified 

 by fifty artistic reproductions of landscapes from all parts of 

 the country. The Orange Judd Co. are the publishers and the 

 price of the book is $2.00 net. 



After forty years of teaching Dr. W. J. Beal has retired 

 from the chair of Botany at the Michigan Agricultural College 

 and in the future will reside with his son-in-law Ray Stannard 

 Baker in New York. Though still hale and hearty, Dr. Beal 

 has concluded that at the age of 77 he has earned a rest. May 

 he long live to enjoy it! His services to botany are too well 

 known to need repeating here. He is one of the few remaining 

 examples of the old time field botanist who though quite 

 at home in the laboratory and class-room finds great pleasure 

 among the growing things. Dr. Beal is succeeded by Dr. 

 Ernst A. Bessey, son of Dr. C. E. Bessey of the University of 

 Nebraska. The younger Bessey is a botanist of much promise 

 and has held various important positions under the government 

 and elsewhere, but his fame has been rather overshadowed by 

 that of his distinguished father. 



Our ornamented shrubs have ever been a difficult problem 

 for the botanizer. Cultivated chiefly for their beauty, they 

 hail from distant lands and other inaccessible regions, and to 

 run them down in the floras of their respective countries re- 

 quires more money, time and labor than the collector cares to 

 devote to them. Nor is the task of assembling tlie descrip- 

 tions of all these in one book an easy one and in addition to 

 locating the species in the books, it requires great familiarity 

 with the stock of gardener and nurseryman in order to include 

 those entitled to admission. That such a book has at last been 

 made is likely to be the verdict of all who have had the pleas- 

 ure of looking into Apagar's "Oniamental Shrubs of the 



