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HORTICULTURE 



December 16, 1916 



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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the Brit- 

 ish Isles — By W. J. Bean, Assistant 

 Curator, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 

 England. Revised Edition. In two 

 volumes, with 1385 pages of text, 

 copious index, many full page plates 

 and very freely illustrated with figures 

 prepared from photographs. A select 

 bibliography is given. The first chap- 

 ter is historical in character and Chap- 

 ters II to XXVII are practical and 

 cover all phases from propagation, 

 transplanting, pruning etc., to lists of 

 plants for special and peculiar situa- i 

 tions. That on pruning is especially 

 thorough and practical. The rest of the 

 work is devoted to a discussion of the 

 species and genera alphabetically ar- 

 ranged. The descriptions are terse 

 and clear, and the habitat and date of 

 introduction is usually given. The 

 Royal Gardens. Kew, is taken as a 

 standard for hardiness. The arrange- 

 ment of the contents is simple and re- 

 markably easy; the type is excellent 

 and the illustrations leave nothing to 

 be desired. 



The author is recognized as one of 

 the highest authorities on hardy woody 

 plants in Europe and his thirty-three 

 years' association with the vast collec- 

 tions at Kew have given him invalu- 

 able opportunities. He is also familiar 

 with the contents of all the famous 

 gardens in Great Britain and Ireland; 

 further, he has travelled extensively 

 on the continent of Europe and in 1910 

 he visited this country. All in all. Mr. 

 Bean is particularly well fitted to write 

 authoritatively on the subject to which 

 he has devoted a lifetime and he has 

 handled it in a masterly way. In Great 

 Britain and Ireland the work will un- 

 doubtedly remain a standard for many 

 decades to come, and we congratulate 

 the garden fraternity on thus possess- 

 ing such an excellent treatise. 



To us in this country where far 

 greater extremes of climate and soil 

 obtain, the consideration of hardiness 

 of many plants, especially broad-leaved 

 evergreens, in this book has little or 

 no application. In these matters we 

 have to work out our own problems. 

 But apart from this important detail. 

 Mr. Bean's book is full of valuable in- 

 formation and should be in the hands 



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 plants. In this connection it is interest- 

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 so far proved hardy in the vicinity of 

 Boston — for example. Viburnum Car- 

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 a few have and will attain permanent 

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 content ourselves with commending It 

 to our readers as a worthy book on a 

 worthy subject worthily executed. 



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Flatheaded borers are among the 

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 ing forest trees in the United States. 

 Some mine the leaves, one burrows 

 into the cones, a number bore into the 

 inner bark and outer wood of the 

 trunk, branches, and roots, while 

 the majority excavate oval winding 

 "wormholes" throughout the sound 

 or decaying sapwood and heartwood. 



The bark-borers often girdle and 

 kill liMilthy trees or those injured by 

 fire, floods, droughts, diseases, other 

 insects, or careless lumbering, and at 

 other times weaken trees so that they 

 become easy victims of diseases, other 

 insects, or uniavorable environment. 

 Sometimes when they do not kill the 

 tree outright their work causes dead 

 limbs or twigs, or serious defects, 

 checks, or giim spots to form in the 

 wood, or swollen galls to form on the 

 branches. The wood-borers mine the sap- 

 wood and heartwood of the trunk, top, 

 and larger branches and thus destroy or 

 seriously injure a large amount of the 

 tree's most valuable product, its tim- 

 ber. Wormholes will cause the finest 

 grade clear lumber to become unfit for 

 the higher grade uses and, therefore, 

 tmsalable at the higher prices. Bureau 

 of Entomology, V. S. Department of 

 Af/riculture. 



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HOLYOKE AND NORTHAMPTON 



(MASS.) FLORISTS' AND 



GARDENERS' CLUB. 



The regular meeting vras held Dec. 



.5th at Gallivnn Bros.' greenhouses 



with a good attendance of members. 



Chief interest centered in the election 



of officers. George Strugnell was 



elected president and H. E. Downer 

 vice-president. James Whiting was 

 re-elected secretary for his fourth 

 term. His report showed the club to 

 be making steady progress from year 

 to year. K. B. Ullman, F. D. Keyes 

 and W. J. Gallivan were elected as the 

 executive committee. Three new mem- 

 bers were added. 



