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Two books on elementary botany.* 
Miss NEWELL’s earlier volume treating of the vegetative parts of 
plants was favorably commented on in this journal at the time of its 
appearance several years ago. The present part treating of the flower 
and fruit is quite up to the mark of its predecessor; and as the sub- 
ject it deals with is much more difficult to handle, that is to be taken 
as high commendation. 
The book commences with a study of the bulbous plants that are 
at . are most likely to encounter are evidently intimately known to 
uthor. We do not know a book which is better adapted for its 
_ than this one, and can most heartily recommend it to those 
Peers addresses: “teachers, and mothers studying with their 
and 2p The illustrations are from the pen of Miss H. P. Symmes, 
executi ough there 1s something of technique to the desired in their 
T ution, they exhibit much artistic feeling and essential accuracy. 
which thie s “ BOOK ‘is of wholly different sort, not only in the way in 
essayed ubject is treated, but also in its quality. Miss Aitken has 
Ye £0 produce an “elementary text book of botany for the use of 
Itis divided into three parts, the first being designated 
f the external morphology and classification of flowering 
Mothers sivas = H.—Outlines of lessons in botany for the use of teachers, or 
“L393. Ginn RY en eee Part II: Flower and fruit. 12mo. pp- 
mann, ag ag iy pelementary text-book of botany for the use of schools. 
- 249. figs. 131. Longmans, Green & Co. London: 1891. 
