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the gift in 1808 of £250 by Sir Joseph Banks, Bt., P.R.S., the 

 income to increase the professorial stipend, but with the proviso 

 that the annual return should be enjoyed daring life by Fru A. M, 

 Idman, a relative (married sister?) of Daniel Solander, Banks's 

 fellow-traveller and afterwards his librarian. 



The lady died in the same year, 1808, so the increment came 

 at once to augment Swartz's modest salary. 



B. D. J. 



Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles.*— TLe need 



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has long been felt, for altliongh certain groups liave been dealt 



from time 



to take the place of Loudon's great work published between TO 

 and 80 years ago and now hopelessly out of date. The book under 

 notice, • however, fills the want, and is likely to remain the 



Mr. W 



many years to come 



the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, whose long- connection with 



the Kew nnllftct.innn nnrl 



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coiiecuons ana com 

 th arboricultnrf' ha-v 



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The late Mr. G. Nicholson contemplated a revision of Loudon's 

 book had not failing health put a stop to all serious work, and 

 in some quarters an idea has prevailed that Mr. Bean's book was 

 being prepared upon similar lines. But a comparison of the two 

 books shows that there is nothing in common between them 

 except the thoroughness of the authors. 



The work is divided into two volumes, the first containing 688 

 pages and the second To6 pages. The first volume commences with 

 chapters upon various operations connected with the culture of 

 trees and shrubs and lists of subjects suitable for various soils 

 and positions, and concludes at page 110 with a glossary of botani- 

 cal terms. In this part are found chapters upon such subjects as 

 propagation, hybridising and selection, nursery work and 

 methods,^ transplanting, soils and mulching, arrangement of 

 shrubberies, staking or other means of support, pruning trees and 

 shrubs, climbing shrubs, pendulous trees, fastigiate or erect- 

 branched trees, dwarf trees and shrubs, trees and slirubs with 

 handsome fruits, handsome-barked trees and shrubs, variegated 

 and coloured trees and shrubs, fine-foliaged trees and shrubs, 

 autumnal colour in trees and shrubs, early- and late-flowering 

 trees and shrubs, street planting, hedges, trees and shrubs for 

 wet places, shrubs for dry positions and poor soils, shrubs in shady 

 places, seaside planting, and an excellent and exceedingly 

 interesting opening chapter entitled historical notes. From page 

 111 of the first volume to the end of ihe second volume the space 

 IS given over to a descriptive list of genera and species, except 

 for some 40 pages at the end, which are reauired for an index. 



*" Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles." By W. J. Bean, 



Assistant Curator, Eoyal Botanic Garden?. Kew. London; John Murray; 

 i Tola., price 423. net. 



