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via the Throckmorton and West Point Trails, and h;ick to Mill 

 Valley via the Boot-jack Trail and the road through Sequoia Canon 

 and over the hill, discovered eighteen other species, all indigenous. 

 They must have been in bloom the day before, so that we can count 

 seventy species or more in bloom near San Francisco on Christmas 

 day. — Alice Eastwood. 



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Natal Plants, Vol. I, part I, by J. Medley Wood, A. L. S., 

 curator of the Natal Botanic Gardens, Durban, and Maurice S. 

 Evans, F. Z. S., is in the style of the English colonial publications. 

 There are fifty plates, accompanied by descriptions of the species, 

 and with notes on their distribution, economic value, and native 

 names. The work should accomplish much in the advancement of 

 popular, as well as scientific, knowledge of the botany of Natal. 



The first part of the second series of "Minnesota Botanical 

 Studies," issued June 15, 1898, contains, among other papers, ''A 

 method of determining the abundance of secondary species," by 

 Roscoe Pound and Frederic E. Clements; "New and Interesting 

 Species from New Mexico," by A. A. Heller, and "Some Musci of 

 the International Boundary," by John M. Holzinger. 



The latest book by Prof. L. H. Bailey bears the title "Garden 

 Making. Suggestions for the Utilizing of Home Grounds." The 

 volume discusses "The Plan of the Place," and the securing of 

 landscape effects, "Planting of the Ornamental Grounds," "The 

 Fruit Plantation," and " The Vegetable Garden." It is, perhaps, 

 especially to people who have only a limited area in which to give 

 expression to their gardening activity that the four hundred pages 

 maybe recommended asagreataid and an inspiration. [MacMillan 

 & Co., New York, $1.00.] 



Three years ago Mr. Geo. Hansen issued an "Enumeration and 

 Classification of all Hybrids of Orchids published up to October 15, 

 1895." In the preface, and in other places in the text, the author 



