300 Forestry Quarterly. 



An innovation in this catalogue, over most State texts, is in the 

 excellent but simple keys to the genera and species. Professor 

 Piper's list is far from being a bare catalogue of plant names. The 

 full synonymy of each species is given, the type, locality, and the 

 range. The list is replete with notes where uncertainty exists in 

 relation to citations and the work abounds in notes giving added 

 information to present published accounts of the plants of the 

 State. Many new species are described and many others mentioned 

 for the first time as occurring within the State. 



The nomenclature aims to follow the recently proposed Phila- 

 delphia code. A fairly conservative attitude is taken regarding 

 the limitation of species and the splitting of well established genera 

 for the sake of new names. J. W. T. 



Report of the Superintendent of Forestry, Part X, Annual Report, 

 1905, Department of Interior, Dominion of Canada, Ottawa. 

 28 pp., 8 plates. 



This publication sets forth the work accomplished by the For- 

 estry Branch of the Department of the Interior during 1905. Of 

 special interest are the reports of the Assistant Superintendent and 

 the Tree Planting Inspectors, in which the progress of tree planting 

 among private landowners is discussed. 



The distribution of seedlings and cuttings to farmers has now 

 assumed large proportions, 1,860,000 seedlings and cuttings having 

 been furnished during 1905. Seventy-five per cent of the above 

 were maple and ash, the remainder consisting of Dakota cotton- 

 woods, Russian poplars, willows and a few elms. The species of 

 maple is not stated, but it is doubtless the one locally known as 

 Manitoba maple {Acer negundo). If such is the case, it seems 

 unfortunate that encouragement should be given to planting a tree 

 of so little value when other trees of greater worth could readily 

 be substituted. Large numbers of Acer negundo were planted on 

 timber claims in the United States some years ago and the owners 

 of these claims now regret that they did not plant trees producing 

 more valuable timber. Canadian foresters cannot but profit by a 

 study of the plantations made in the prairie regions of the United 

 States, for thereby they could avoid many of the errors committed 

 by tree planters in this country. The report states that the great- 

 est interest in tree planting is manifested by settlers in the regions 

 which are just opening up. 



