I20 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Haray Trees and Shrubs in the British Isles. By W. J. Bean, 

 Assistant Curator, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Two 

 volumes, 1440 pp., with over 250 line-drawings and 64 half- 

 tone illustrations. Price £2, 2s. net. London : John 

 Murray. 



These comprehensive volumes, which reached us as we were 

 about to go to press, appear to be the lineal successors of 

 Loudon's great work published seventy-six years ago. The 

 author points out that in the interval the number of species 

 introduced to cultivation has probably been doubled, and that in 

 the present volumes about 2800 species (besides numerous 

 varieties) have been described, including nearly 400 of the new 

 Chinese trees and shrubs introduced within the last fifteen years. 

 We hope to return to this book again in a future issue. 



Trees: A Woodland Notebook containing Observations on certain 

 British and Exotic Trees. By the Right Hon. Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bt., F.R.S., LL.D., D.C.L. Illustrated with 

 photographs by Mr Henry Irving and others. 2rs. net. 

 Glasgow : Maclehose & Sons. 



This delightful book consists of thirty-four articles or essays, 

 each of which is devoted to a single tree or species. The trees 

 selected are those indigenous to the United Kingdom, and 

 exotic species which have proved, or are likely to prove, suitable 

 to the British climate. The papers, which originally appeared 

 in the Scotsman, aroused a great deal of public interest, and we 

 hope there will be a large demand for them in this permanent 

 form. While the author professes that his aim is not to present 

 either a scientific botanical treatise or a manual of technical 

 forestry, the reader will find that a considerable amount of 

 botany and forestry has been imparted to him in a most agree- 

 able manner. The author's method is to give information as to 

 the general distribution of the particular tree he is dealing with — 



