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text is accompanied with plans, designs, photograpliic illnstratious, and colored 

 plates, together with selections of flowers and plants for the various forms of 

 planting, and particulars on how to grow them. The principles herein ex- 

 pressed are based upon the author's personal experience. 



How to lay out suburban home grounds, H. .1. Kellaway (New York, 1907, 

 pp. 112, pis. 38, (l(/nis. 15). — In this popular work the author treats of the de- 

 velopment of small suburban grounds, with the view to combining practical 

 utility with artistic surroundings. In the opening chapter attention is paid 

 to the importance of treating the grounds as a whole and " counting the cost " 

 before the construction, of the house. Consideration is also given to the 

 selection of the home site with reference to social, economic, and esthetic 

 conditions. The details of development are discussed at length, including the 

 treatment of difficult situations, the construction of lawns, gardens, walks 

 and drives, and suggestions with regard to what and when to plant, including 

 planting and cultural directions. * 



The work concludes with a discussion of the sphere of the landscape archi- 

 tect and the value of good design. The text is accompanied with several 

 specimen preliminary plans, topographical maps, and grading and plans, as 

 well as numerous photographs illustrating artistic development. 



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Handbook of the trees of the Northern States and Canada, R. B. Hough 

 (LoicriUe, N. Y., 1907, pp. X + J^70, figs. .yjS, maps I'/O). — This work includes 

 photographic illustrations and descriptions of the native and naturalized trees 

 of North America lying north of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and 

 Oklahoma, east of the Rocky Mountains, and extending southward in the 

 Appalachian region to northern Alabama and Georgia. In each case the illus- 

 trations include trunks of specimen trees, branchlets with mature leaves and 

 fruit, transverse sections of the wood showing the structure, and outline maps 

 indicating the regions over which the trees are distributed. The work also 

 includes a key to the families based mainly upon flowers, and a synopsis of 

 the families and genera under discussion, with analytical keys leading to the 

 species. 



The forest trees of eastern Nebraska, C. E. Bessey (Proc. loiva Acad. ScL, 

 13 (1906), pp. 7.3-87, fiys. 67). — Brief notes are given on the occurrence and 

 direction of migration of the various families of forest trees growing in eastern 

 Nebraska. The notes are accompanied with outline maps showing the distribu- 

 tion in that State of 07 dift'erent si)ecies. 



Woods of Borneo, L. Maynaed {Daily Consular and Trade Rpts. [U. 8.], 

 1907, No. 2993, pp. IJf, 15). — A list and notes on the use of the principal Borneo 

 woods, together with a table showing the amount and value of timber shipped 

 from the principal ports of North Borneo during 1905 and 190G. The export 

 lumber trade is said to be principally to China, aV)out 2.5,000 cu. ft. being ex- 

 ported yearly to European markets. 



The swamp mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta), F. Albert {La Caoba de las 

 Vegas o Eucalyptus robusta. Santiago de Chile: Min. Indus., 1907, pp. 23, 

 figs. S). — This is a monograph on the swamp mahogany, including a botanical 

 description with connnon names and synonyms, the range and distribution, soil 

 and climatic adaptability, seed collection, methods of propagation, planting and 

 subsequent care, and notes on the timber and its uses. This species ef eucalyp- 

 tus is said to be adai)ted for marshy situations and even tolerates somewhat 

 brackish water. The author recommends it for planting in such locations in 

 Chili. 



