REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. II9 



the same way, the henbane is quoted as bearing millions of 

 seeds, when willow seems quite as good ; and sweet pea is 

 figured as a type of fruit equally well exemplified by laburnum. 

 Figure 7 is described as a pine cone but it is actually the spruce. 

 The statement that on the heather-covered moors of Scotland 

 " no trees will grow " owing to the cold winds is inaccurate, since 

 many acres of these very moors do carry forest up to an altitude 

 of 1500 feet or more. The lists of books, and firms who will 

 supply lantern slides on trees, will be useful to many teachers. 



The Care of Trees in Lawn, Street and Park : With a List of 

 Trees and Shrubs for Decorative Use. By Bernhard E. 

 Ferndw, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, University of 

 Toronto. x-)-392 pp. including Index. Illustrated. New 

 York: Henry Holt &: Company, 1910. 



This is a good book, as was to be expected from the pen of 

 so experienced and competent a master as is the author. It 

 contains just the "information such as the owner of trees may 

 be in search of." It is not a work on forestry. Its subject is 

 the isolated tree wherever planted, whether for shade or ornament, 

 and the aim of the book is to enlighten those who have trees 

 under their care, so that their part as "Tree wardens" — the 

 "expressive, dignified and honourable title" which the author 

 coins — may be adequately performed. 



The book opens with a lucid account of the essential points in 

 the structure of trees, and in their method of life. In course of it, 

 the relations to their environment and the recuperative capacity 

 of trees are graphically sketched. To the ailments, however 

 caused, that aflFect trees the author gives much space, and adds 

 sound advice as to treatment. Tending of trees, pruning and 

 planting are all dealt with succinctly and effectively. In the 

 two hundred pages, making the first half ©f the book, that are 

 devoted to this general account of the right basis for and of the 

 right method in the care of trees, Mr Fernow has provided a 

 guide for planters that is thoroughly sound in its information. 

 It is written professedly for the amateur planter and for the 

 custodian of town trees, — who is too often untrained, — not for the 

 expert ; yet the latter will find in it much that will remind him 

 of principles. The author has been successful in the difficult 



