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esting and practical article in Horticulture for November 15. In 

 the same issue, John C. Wister describes certain notable gardens of 

 the East under the title "Where the Country's Finest Lilacs Grow." 



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A brief story of an unusually interesting herb garden is told 

 among other garden tales in the November Bulletin of the Garden 

 Club of America. Dorothy E. Pletcher also writes of herb gardens 

 in the December Nature Magazine. 



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The Orchid Review for November includes "Sick Orchids: 

 Some Causes and Cures" by B. Hills, of Exbury, a grower with 

 thirty years of practical experience in raising orchids. 



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An ail-American selection of annuals described in the December 

 1 issue of Horticulture includes a giant Scabiosa with curled petals, 

 Pink Gem variety of Petunia nana compacta, the annual chrysan- 

 themum known as Eldorado, the aster Los Angeles, and Hunne- 

 mannia Sunlight. 



How foresters are growing trees on the mid-western prairies, 

 where nature for thousands of years has failed, is told by Clyde M. 

 Brundy in the December number of American Forests. 



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New terms that are becoming accepted in genetics, but which 

 have not yet appeared in any dictionaries, are being published in a 

 glossary on the inside back cover of the Journal of Heredity, begin- 

 ning with the ( )ctober number. 



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The fourth number of Brittonia, a series of botanical papers. 

 principally systematic and geographical, being published by The 

 New York Botanical Garden, appeared last month. It contains 

 descriptions and discussions by A. (". Seward, of Cambridge, En- 

 gland, and by E. D. Merrill and Albert C. Smith, of The New York 

 Botanical ( rarden. 



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New books lately acquired by the Botanical Garden Library in- 

 clude a number of volumes on gardening and entomology. H. 

 Stuart ( nllolT gives special attention to design in his work on "In- 



