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An outdoor book. 
The list of those who love to wander afield and drink in the 
beauties of unspoiled: Nature under all skies isa long one. A few 
have seen, and have tried by telling their visions to awaken the love 
of others. Thoreau, Flagg, Burroughs, Abbott, Gibson, are names 
well known in this form of literary effort; and there are a host of 
others less familiar, perhaps, but scarcely less interesting. ‘There lies 
before us a book! by Mr. Joseph Jackson, of Worcester, Mass., en- 
titled, “Through Glade and Mead,” which brings visions of the same 
fields, meadows, and woodlands, seen this time through the eyes of a 
botanist. Mr. Jackson writes of the plants and birds with the pen of 
a lover and even the “closet botanists,” as they are reproachfully 
called, reading his lines, will want to go back to their freer days and 
prowl through glade and mead once more. 
s appendix A appears the second edition of the Flora of Wor- 
cester county, a catalogue of the phaenogamous and vascular crypto- 
gamous plants containing 1,098 species and varieties, of which fifty-five 
are cryptogams. Appendix B isa list of the trees, shrubs, and ever- 
green plants growing in the same region. 
The book is most elegantly printed and is illustrated by a series of 
half-tones from photographs by Mr. Lyford. An edition de luxe, 
thirty-five signed copies illustrated by fourteen platinotypes, has also 
been issued, and the ordinary edition is limited to 500. 
Minor Notices. 
While books of this nature hardly come within the scope of this 
journal, Mr. Foster-Melliar has given us such a charming volume in 
his “book of the rose’”* that it deserves mention. The writer is a suc- 
cessful enthusiast in the cultivation of roses, and gives the benefit of 
his long experience in a clear and full way that leaves little to be de- 
sired. A history and classification of roses is followed by a consider- 
ation of soils, planting, manures, pruning, stocks, propagation, etc. An 
interesting chapter deals with “pests,” both insects and plant parasites, 
and a monthly calendar of necessary operations closes the volume, 
which is also completely indexed. The happy style of treatment, and 
the clear presentation of the needful operations would tempt almost 
any one to become a “rosarian.” 
JS CKSON, JOSEPH: Through glade and mead; a contribution to local nat- 
ic pees: 8vo. pp. xiv + 332, illust. Worcester, Mass.: Putnam, Davis 
er oe Rev. A.: The k of the S- 8vo. pp. 336. pl. 29. 
London and New York: Siete & oo 1894. $2. 
