06 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



representative magazine devoted to the conservation of our 

 woods, waters, soils and ores and is doing most valuable work 

 in awakening a sentiment for the protection of our natural re- 

 sources. 



Miss Anne Wilson has recently issued a little book called 

 "Boggy Solitudes of Nantucket" which is mainly a chronicle 

 of some of the plants and animals of the region mentioned. It 

 is somewhat after the manner of a local flora and somewhat 

 after — a long way after — Mrs. Danas "According to Season." 

 Those who visit Nantucket will find it a good book to take 

 along though it does not give localities for the interesting 

 plants mentioned. It is published by the Neale Publishing Co., 

 New York at $1.25. 



Tree-books, good, bad and indififerent have appeared on 

 the market and all, even the bad ones, have done something to 

 advance the knowledge of our trees, but no single book that 

 the reviewer has seen contains so much that is useful and so 

 little that is bad, as "Our Trees ; How to Know Them," by 

 Arthur I. Emerson and Clarence M. Weed. Anyone with in- 

 telligence enough to recognize a given tree when he sees it a 

 second time cannot go astray with this book. Each tree is 

 illustrated by a good plate, or rather a composite plate, which 

 gives a view of the tree as a whole, with usually life sized 

 photographs of the leaves, flowers and fruits and one has but 

 to turn the pages until he comes to an exact representation of 

 the tree he wishes to name. On the page facing each plate 

 is a popular account of the tree, including its range, folk-lore, 

 poetry, etc. The book is a large and well printed octavo of 

 nearly 300 pages and is published by the J. B. Lippincott Co., 

 Philadelphia at $3.00 net. 



