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HORTICULTURE 



March 25, 1911 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Under the Root of the Jungle— A 

 hook of animal life in the Guiana 

 wilds. By Charles Livingston Bull. 

 60 full page plates from drawings 

 from life by the author. L. C. Page 

 & Co., Boston, publishers. Charles 

 Livingston Bull is primarily an artist, 

 well-known as the illustrator of many 

 magazine articles, and books such as 

 Watchers of the Trails, by C. B. G. 

 Roberts; Call of the Wild, by Jack 

 London, etc. The books before us 

 is a series of vivid word pictures of 

 tropical nights, tragedies of the forest 

 wilds and wierd tales of reprisal and 

 calamity to the denizens of the woods, 

 amongst the lavish beauty and grace 

 of orchids, anthuriums and other 

 floral spenders of the tropics. The 

 author frankly acknowledges that his 

 book was inspired by the recorded 

 adventures of Charles Waterton in 

 British Guiana one hundred years ago, 

 and we can see the evidence throughout 

 that the pages are more in the way 

 of the impressions of the artist than 

 the experiences of the explorer. The 

 book may not appeal so much to the 

 naturalist as to the impressionable 

 student, but here it will fill a place 

 of no small usefulness in developing 

 a keen interest In the great natural 

 resources of these tropical countries 

 and the life history of the animals, 

 reptiles, birds and insects that make 

 their home in the jungle. 



"Adorning the Beulah Land of the 

 Hither Shore and How to Become an 

 Extinguished Minister." By C. S. Har- 

 rison, York, Neb.— This 60-page bDOk 

 is in Mr. Harrison's best vein. It 

 is largely a series of incidents in 

 the busy eventful life of the author, 

 Interwoven with inspiring suggestion 

 and a sunshiny humor fully up to the 

 best efforts of that other genial writer, 

 the late Rev Dean Hole. We have al- 

 ways enjoyed reading anything written 

 by this "79-year-young" apostle of 

 Christianity and horticulture. We 

 hope the grand old pioneer will yet 

 stay many years to adorn Beulah Land. 



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Farmington, Conn., Feb. 23, 1911. 

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