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ments, rate of growth, and other matters. The description of 
“Sal” (Shorea robusta), an important hardwood, for instance, 
occupies some 70 pages, whilst that of the “ Deodar” (Cedrus 
Deodara), the most important coniferous tree of the Western 
Himalaya, covers 36 pages. In each case the description is full 
of detail, botanical and silvicultural. The excellent series of 
coloured drawings of seeds, germinating seedlings, and young 
plants are of the greatest interest. The other drawings, black 
and white and coloured, and also the photographs, are excellent 
in every way. W. D. 
Fo Trees and Shrubs of Hungary.—This fine book* on 
the distribution of the trees and shrubs in Hungary was published 
just before the outbreak of the war, and has only just reached 
us through H.M. Stationery Office. It deals with the wood 
vegetation of the territory included in the pre-war Hungarian 
Kingdom, which comprises the Carpathians, the Alps of Croatia, 
Carinthia, and Hungary, Slavonia, the Transylvanian and 
Siebenburgen Mountains, and the great Hungarian plain. Five 
coloured maps show the physical geography of the region and 
the distribution of the more important species, comprising 
beam, hop-hornbeam, lime, maple, ash, holly and lilac. The 
plates in the first volume are excellent reproductions of photo- 
graphs of forest scenes, amongst which may be signalled out 
those of Austrian pine on limestone precipices, larch at a high 
altitude in the Tatra, and oak in Slavonia. The text is perhaps 
the most detailed description yet published of any territory, as 
regards the exact vertical and horizontal limits of the species 
which compose the forests. Much information is given on plant 
geography generally, and special chapters are devoted to the 
afforestation schemes that are being carried out in three 
remarkable districts: in the sandy parts of the Hungarian 
plain; in the desert, comparable to a small Sahara, of Deliblat, 
north of the Danube to the east of Belgrade; and in the Karst, 
‘the dreary limestone plateau which extends along the Adriatic 
coast from Fiume to Gorizia. The book should be procured by 
_all lovers of trees and students of forestry. Its scientific value 
will also be appreciated by ecologists. A. HENBY. 
* L. Fekete und T. Blattny, Die Verbreitung der forstlichwichtigen 
Baume und Striiucher im Ungarischen Staate. Selmecbanya: Aug. Joerges 
Witwe Sohn, Vol. i, 845 pages, 13 plates, 1914. Vol. i, 150 pages, 
-5 coloured maps, 1913. 
