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appeared in French literature or thai ha\e been translated into the French language 

 from other sources. 



The more important antique works are noted, as well as the illustrated works on 

 plants of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Works dealing with 

 rural architecture, general treatises on gardening, works on I'mit culture, floriculture, 

 vegetable garden, and landscape gardening are also noted, as well as old horticultural 

 and botanical catalogues and hooks of poems, and journals dealing with horticultural 

 subjects. 



FORESTRY. 



The tree book, Julia E. Rogers (New York: Doubleday Page <v- Co., 1906, pp. 

 A V 589, pis. 176). — This is a popular manual of the trees of North America, and in 

 addition to the indigenous trees, the author has included many of the more important 

 shrubs and also the more extensively introduced species of both groups. 



Artificial keys are given which are based upon easily distinguishable characters, 

 by means of which any species of tree or shrub can' be identified and its principal 

 characteristics learned. In addition to the usual descriptions, information is given 

 on the growth, habitat, distribution, uses, cultural adaptations, etc. After giving 

 popular suggestions by which the novice may learn to know trees, the author describes 

 the different species enumerated, grouping them according to families. 



In the concluding parts of the work notes are given on forestry, the uses of wood, 

 and the life activity of trees. Under the chapters on forestry, the author describes 

 the care of trees, methods of transplanting, pruning, enemies, etc., and the sugges- 

 tions offered will be found of practical value not only in forestry, but to the amateur 

 planter or owner of a few specimens, as well as to those having charge of parks and 

 street or avenue plantings. 



The illustrations, which are an important feature of the work, are mostly excellent 

 reproductions of photographs showing the various aspects of the tree, its leaves, 

 flowers, fruit, etc. 



The forest service: What it is and how it deals with forest problems, 

 (t. Pinchot ( U. S. Dej)L Ayr., Forest Sere Circ. 86, pp. 24)- — An account of the organi- 

 zation of the United States Forest Service. The service is organized under 7 offices, 

 each of which has several sections. All of the offices and sections are responsible to 

 the forester. 



The sections directly responsible to the forester are those denominated inspection, 

 reserve boundaries, publications and education, silvics, forest law, and forest reserves. 

 The other main offices are Forest Measurements, Forest Management, Forest Exten- 

 sion, Dendrology, Forest Products, and Records. The duties performed by each of 

 these offices are briefly outlined. The circular concludes with a classified list of pub- 

 lications issued by the Forest Service. 



Previous to July, 1905, the Forest Service was known as the Bureau of Forestry, 

 and earlier still as the Division of Forestry. The Forest Service deals with the prac- 

 tical uses of forests and forest trees in the United States, and first of all with the 

 commercial managemenl of forest tracts, woodlots, and forest plantations. The care 

 and perpetuation of the national forests are under its control, and it offers coopera- 

 tion and assistance in the solution of practical forest problems confronting either 

 States or individuals. 



A working- plan for forest lands in central Alabama, K. \Y. Rbkd I U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Forest Serv. /»'"/. 68, pp. , v /,y/.s-. 4, maps 9). -The working plan presented in 

 this bulletin relates to two tracts of long-leaf pine land in Alabama, one Located in 

 Coosa County and the other in the western end of Bibb County and portions of the 

 adjacent counties of Tuscaloosa, Hale, and Perry. 



The lumber company for which the plan was made desire to BO manage their lands 

 that the area now being cut over will be able to produce at least 3,000 feet to the acre 



