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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



October, 1902. 



Familiar Trees and Their Leaves. By F. Schuy- 

 LhR Mathews. With 12 colored plates, 

 200 drawings from nature by the author. 

 Pp.320. Price, |i. 75 net. D Appleton & 

 Co., New York. 



This artistic volume contains a large amount 

 of interesting information concerning the bet- 

 ter-known trees of the eascern Ignited States. 

 The botanical name and habitat of each tree is 

 ^iven, along with a record of the precise char- 

 acter and color of its foliage. The book is il- 

 lustrated with twelve plates in colors of repre- 

 sentative trees, and 200 drawings from nature 

 of leaves and seeds of the best-known species. 



This book will prove of great value to stu- 

 dents who wish to become familiar with the 

 more common trees. At the end of the vol- 

 ume there is an index giving the common and 

 botanical names of the trees of the eastern 

 I'nited States 



' ' Familiar Trees and Their Leaves ' ' has 

 been prepared with the usual care that Mr. 

 Mathews has shown in his other book. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of the Missouri Botani- 

 ical Gardens. Pp. 133. Illustrated with 99 

 plates St. Louis, Mo. 



The thirteenth annual report of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden at St. Louis, Mo., is an un- 

 usually interesting number The formal re- 

 ports of the Director and of Officers of the Board 

 occupy only a few pages, while the major part 

 of the 133 pages of printed matter comprises an 

 exhaustive revision and technical study of the 

 y'uccecr or Yuccas, bv Dr. William Trelease, 



Director of the Garden. One hundred excel- 

 lent half-tone plates (including one heliotype) 

 from photographs and drawings, amply illus- 

 trate the distribution and the characters of the 

 species and varieties discussed 



It is, perhaps, not generally known that 

 some fifteen of these curious plants form a 

 conspicuous part of the forest growth of many 

 desert or dry regions in southwestern and 

 southern North America. Ten of these tree 

 yuccas occur within the borders of the LTnited 

 States and about five are Mexican or Central 

 American. The yuccas are useful ornamental 

 trees and deserve wider use in suitable cli- 

 mates. Their leaves furnish a strong fiber for 

 ropes, while the wood of some species is used 

 in making furniture. The large, bulky fiow-- 

 ers of one species are extensively eaten by cat- 

 tle and sheep. The banana-like fruit of sev- 

 eral species is said to be eaten by Mexican and 

 Indian children; but the writer suggests as 

 probably correct, a comparison of the taste of 

 this fruit with that of ' ' black-currant jam fla- 

 vored with quinine " 



The principal species formerly included in 

 W\& genus Yucca have, as a result of Dr. Tre- 

 lease's sixteen years of close stud}-, been di- 

 vided among three genera Hespetoyucca, 

 Clistoyucca, and Yucca. Important differ- 

 ences in the flowers, fruit, and seeds appear to 

 justify this new classification. We take pleas- 

 ure in saying that Dr. Trelease's contribution 

 to the scanty literature of this group of little- 

 known plants, will give much-needed aid to 

 students and others interested in the yuccas. 



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