114 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Our Forests and Woodlands. By John Nisbet. London, J. M. 

 Dent & Co. New and revised Edition, xx + 348 pp., 

 including Index, and five Illustrations. Price 3s. 6d. net. 



The new edition is longer by eight pages than the former one 

 of 1900, but the number of illustrations has been reduced from 

 twelve to five, and the cost has been reduced from 7s. 6d. to 

 3s. 6d. There is a new preface which is eighteen pages longer than 

 that of the original edition. It is dated 20th August 1908. In 

 it the author reviews the principal events that have occurred since 

 the issue of the first edition, and gives his views on the present 

 aspect of the " timber and wood question," as it is indicated 

 by increasing imports from abroad. He shows how the national 

 requirement in such produce might be satisfied from forests to 

 be raised within our own coasts, and urges that all political 

 parties should unite in securing for an adequate national scheme 

 of afforestation and timber-planting the full consideration which 

 it undoubtedly deserves. The Report of the Erosion and 

 Afforestation Commission had not been issued when this was 

 written. 



Trees : A Handbook of Forest Botany for the Woodlands and 

 the Laboratory. By the late Professor Marshall Ward. 

 Vol. v., "Form and Habit." Cambridge Biological Series. 

 Cambridge University Press, 1909. Price 4s. 6d. net. 



The fifth and final volume of Trees has now been issued. 

 It deals with " Form," and under this title are considered the 

 following : — the habit of woody plants ; the shoot-system includ- 

 ing the stem, branches, twigs and branch-systems ; the appear- 

 ance of the bark, and the form of the tree. Much interesting 

 and useful information has been brought together under these 

 various headings. The present volume, like its predecessors, 

 is divided into two parts, — Part i., General, and Part ii.. Special. 

 The special part contains a classification of trees and shrubs 

 according to their shapes, while a most interesting appendix to 



