32 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



since we caught most of our noxious species from Europe ; in 

 fact, a careful examination fails to locate a single native Ameri- 

 can among the bad weeds of Great Britain. Evidently the strug- 

 gle for place among the foreign species is too strenuous to per- 

 mit the fighters among our natives to get a footing. There 

 are more than four hundred pages in the book and every phase 

 of the weed nuisance is thoroughly discussed. There are 

 chapters on the way weeds are spread, and general preventive 

 measures given after which the plants are taken up under such 

 heads as weeds of arable land, improvement of grassland and 

 poisonous plants. The plants are described and the measures 

 likely to eradicate them indicated. With us in America, some 

 of the latter would doubtless be disregarded if we found some 

 of the weeds in our fields ; for instance the red poppy, fox 

 glove, heather, pansy, and adder's-tongue fern are included 

 with the weeds. The very thorough way in which the subject 

 is handled will make this book a very useful one to anybody 

 with weeds to fight. It is issued by the F. A. Stokes Co., New 

 York. 



Messrs. Ginn & Co., have recently issued "Domesticated 

 Animals and Plants" by Davenport; the D. Van Nostrand 

 Company announce "Ancient Plants" by M. C. Stopes; Stokes 

 have published "Gardens Near the Sea" by Lounsberry; and 

 the Sturgis and Walton Company have issued "Children's 

 Gardens for Pleasure, Health and Education." 



