308 REVIEWS OF BOOKS. [Feb. 



Keviews of Pooks. 



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ENGLISH COUNTY FIELD CLUBS. 



1. Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natw'al History Society mid 



Field Cluh. ' Vol. III. Parts I. II. Watford. 1884. 



2. Transactions of the Essex Field Cluh. Vol. III. Backhur.st Hill, 



Essex. 1884. 



WE hope subsequently to lay before our readers at greater 

 length some of the records of excellent work contained 

 in these beautiful serials. Both abound in deeply-interesting 

 forestal facts and hints. Meanwhile we direct attention to the 

 " Notes on Boulders and Boulder Clay in North Hertfordshire," by 

 H. George Fordham, F.G.S., in the fasciculi of the first, as indicating 

 the true way in which the problem of the relation of soil to 

 vegetation should be gTappled with. We also note that our con- 

 tributor. Professor Boulger, is president of the Essex Field Club. 

 The present volume of its Transactions should specially interest our 

 readers, if only for the records of the scientific wonders of Epping 

 Forest, and the fight of the Club to conserve the ancient rights of 

 the public in it. 



La Foret, Bevue Foresti&rc. Bernard Aragon, Toulouse. 

 The changes in the magnificent French forest service of which we 

 have apprised our readers, inter alia, has given birth to this new 

 jjeriodical in the interest of the foresters. Sprightliness and solid 

 science are combined in its pages. 



Garden Season's Catcdogues for 1885. 

 The advent of the planting time is again heralded by a pile of 

 quartos, with ornamental covers, betokening the rapid progress of 

 the lithographic art ; while the magnificent plates within render 

 them worthy of being permanently added to the library. All are 

 good. But we must begin with some one ; so we take the Garden 

 ami Farm Seeds Catalogue of our old friends Little & Ballantyne, 

 Carlisle, which promises that the selections from its useful items 

 shall be of guaranteed purity and growth. Messrs. Dicksons & Co., 

 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, alike cater for the vegetable and flower 

 garden or the lawn. Messrs. Ireland & Thomson, of the same 

 locality, give such useful information as to the colour, gi-owth, 

 and culture of their vegetable and flower seeds as will greatly 

 facilitate the judgment of the intending buyer ; while Messrs. 

 Sutton's and Webb's Spring Catalogues have alike such magnificent 

 illustrations as to call for the somewhat trite remark that they are 

 indispensable for the library of the horticultural amateur. 



