REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. II5 



the volume gives a classification of trees and shrubs according 

 to their seedlings. In conformity with the scheme of the entire 

 work, excellent drawings to scale of the various seedlings dealt 

 with accompany this classification. 



It was the author's intention to have completed the entire 

 work in six volumes, but unfortunately he was not spared to see 

 his scheme accomplished. However, before his death, three 

 volumes, dealing with buds, leaves and flowers, had been 

 published, and sufficient manuscript remained for two additional 

 volumes. The task of seeing this manuscript through the press 

 was undertaken by Professor Percy Groom. The material could 

 not have fallen into more competent hands, and the last two 

 volumes maintain the high level of those previously published. 

 This work will rank as one of our standard books of reference. 



The general part of each volume is written in a very lucid and 

 interesting manner, and unnecessary technical terms are rigidly 

 excluded, so that the beginner need have no difficulty in following 

 the text, while the special part of each volume makes Trees a 

 most valuable work for reference. Too much praise cannot be 

 bestowed upon the accurate and excellently reproduced 

 illustrations with which the whole work is replete. No library 

 of forest literature should be without Trees by Professor 

 Marshall Ward. 



Working-Fla?i Report on the Keir Woods, with some Notes on 

 Quoigs and Ardchullary. By W. R, Fisher. Printed by 

 Jas, Hogg & Co., Journal Office, Stirling. 



The number of proprietors who have come to realise the 

 importance of working their woods on business principles is 

 steadily on the increase, and if reasonable concessions in the 

 incidence of taxation could only be made by successive Govern- 

 ments, it cannot be doubted that private landowners would take 

 a large share in the desirable and necessary work of extending 

 the forest area of this country. A fresh instance of this quickened 

 practical interest is furnished by the Working-Plan Report, 

 which has been prepared by Professor Fisher, for an area of 

 about 600 acres of woodland on the Keir Estate in the county 

 of Stirling. 



Parts I. and II. of the report deal with the present condition 

 of the woods, and the general character of the locality as a 



