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Maggiore, Mr Hanbury's garden at La Mortola, the ancient 

 Botanic Garden at Montpellier, or best of all the exceedingly 

 fine collection at Bussaco in Portugal, where the magnificent 

 trees of Cupressus Lusitanica alone will repay the trouble of the 

 long journey. In Cornwall and S.-W. Ireland one can see 

 several of the Athrotaxis and more tender Cupressus, Saxegothea 

 wiispicua, and Fitzroya Patagotiica, but we in Scotland cannot 

 hope to succeed with many of these. 



Of the very numerous new conifers introduced recently into 

 cultivation by the successful botanical expeditions into Central 

 and Western China by Mr E. H. Wilson, only two are here 

 described, Larix Potanini and Picea complafiata; both appear 

 to be perfectly hardy in Scotland. We must hope that Mr 

 Clinton-Baker will give us another volume with illustrations 

 of the many new silver firs and spruces which Mr Wilson has 

 found and which are now being described and named at the 

 Arnold Arboretum. 



The trouble involved in procuring specimens of so many 

 rare species must have been very great, and Mr Clinton-Baker 

 is to be congratulated on compiling a volume so instructive to 

 the increasing number of those who take pleasure in the 

 cultivation of conifers. Perhaps the most interesting description 

 in the volume is that of Fokienia Hodginsii, the curious tree 

 -from Formosa, which seems to be a connecting link between 

 Libocedrus and Cupressus. The frontispiece photograph of 

 the gigantic Cupressus Fortnosejisis will astonish even those 

 who have seen the Sequoia forests of California. 



V. R. S. Balfour. 



Planters Note Book. By J. Woodward, Jun, Gan/(?ier's 

 Chronicle, London, 19 13. Price i/'- 



This little pocket-book is intended to give in handy form a 

 much-to-be desired means of keeping accurate records of the 

 planting of trees. While primarily intended for the purposes 

 of an arboretum or for specimen trees, it might easily be 

 adapted to the needs of the silviculturist. 



The divisions and headings as given in the book are 

 admirable for the purpose for which they are intended, and there 

 are useful spaces for the keeping of records of temperature, 

 rainfall, etc. It is suggested that more space should be given 

 under these headings. 



