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1794. United States. 66th Congress, 2d Session. Joint committee on the library. 

 Hearing on S. 497, a bill to increase the area of the United States botanic garden in the city of 

 Washington, District of Columbia, and S. Res. 165, directing the committee on the District 

 of Columbia to report plans for the creation in or near the District of Columbia of a botanic 

 garden comparable with the best existing botanic gardens. Part 1-2. 58 + v + 59-152 p., 

 4 maps. Government Printing Office: Washington, 1920.— Part 1, Committee hearings, is 

 devoted to testimony of experts on the requirements and possibilities of botanic gardens. 

 Part 2 includes extracts from numerous publications on botanic gardens and their functions, 

 a compilation of statistics in regard to existing gardens, and a list of references to literature 

 on the subject, together with a history of the present garden in Washington.— M. F. Warner. 



1795. Vatjghan, John. The music of wild flowers. 181 p. E. P. Button & Co.: 

 New York, 1920.— A collection of essays, most of which have some bearing on the British 

 local flora, but the 1st, which gives title to the volume, is on the recreation a number of dis- 

 tinguished men have found in field botanical study: The philosophers Rousseau and John 

 Stuart Mill; the poets Gray, Crabbe, and Tennyson; Charles Kingsley; Prof. Hort, the Greek 

 scholar; and Edward Cowell, professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge. The 2nd essay. An Old 

 Herbal, describes the first edition of Fuchs' History of Plants (Basle, 1542), and especially 

 the copy belonging to the library of Winchester Cathedral, in which the English names have 

 been written beneath each plant, evidently by a competent botanist, and in all probability 

 soon after the publication of the work. It is suggested that this copy of Fuchs may have 

 originally been owned by John Warner, a prebendary of the Cathedral from 1549, Dean of 

 Winchester from 1559 until his death in 1564, and a physician as well as a clergyman. His 

 interest in botany is evident from the fact that 2 other botanical books in the Cathedral 

 library contain his name. — M. F. Warner. 



1796. Vatjpel, Friedrich. Aus der alten Kakteenliteratur. Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 

 27: 83-85, 104-107, 113-116, 129-132, 141-146. 1917; 28: 53-54, 71-72, 105-108, 124-126, 136- 

 138. 1918; 29: 25-31, 49-54, 61-66, 115-120, 127-128, 140-144. 1919.— Reprints of diagnoses, 

 descriptions of plates, and a few other notes from the following: Salm-Dyck, Observationes 

 botanicae in horto Dickensi notatae (1822) ; Candolle, Catalogus plantarum horti botanici 

 Monspeliensis (1813) ; Plumier, Plantarum americanarum fasciculus octavus (1758) ; Oviedo, 

 Coronica delas Indias; Lobel, Plantarum seu stirpium historia; Mattioli, Commentarii in 

 sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de medica materia; Acosta, Historia natural y moral 

 de las Indias. — M. F. Warner. 



1797. Vuillemin, Paul. Emile Boudier (1828-1920)— Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845-1920). 

 Rev. G6n. Sci. Pures et Appl. 31 : 233-234. 1920.— The deaths of 2 great leaders in mycology 

 are recorded. — M. F. Warner. 



1798. Warner, H. H. A garden in the sixteenth century. Garden 84: 321. 1920.— 

 Garden of the rectory in the little village of Bishopsbourne near Canterbury, which remains 

 today very much as "the learned and judicious" Richard Hooker, rector from 1595 to 1600, 

 made it. — M. F. Warner. 



1799. Warner, H. H. Shakespeare and the garden. Garden 84: 406-407. Fig. 1920.— 

 Chiefly quotations from Shakespeare relating to flowers and gardens; the number of plants 

 mentioned by him is said to be about 150.— M. F. Warner. 



1800. Warner, M. F. Exostemma Sanctae Luciae. Jour. Botany 56: 55. 1918.— A 

 communication read before the American Philosophical Society February 20, 1784, though 

 not printed until 1786, includes a popular description of the plant by George Davidson, under 

 the name Cinchona Caribaea Sanctae Luciae. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1801. Warner, M. F. The literature of horticulture. Library Jour. 44: 766-776. 1919.— 

 Paper presented at Agricultural Libraries Section, American Library Association, Asbury 



