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The chief value of the work to the systematic botanist is the mod- 
ern and thorough spirit with which all the plants are described. It 
seems to have all the merits of German scholarship at its best. The 
editors are A. Siebert and A. Voss. Alfred Rehder, the young German 
specialist on hardy trees and shrubs, who is writing at the Arnold 
Arboretum for the forthcoming Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 
declares that Voss has a wonderful first-hand knowledge of the plants 
that are actually cultivated in Germany. He knows both the live 
forms and the dried specimens. The “third edition” of Vilmorin’s 
Blumengartnere’ was published in 1896 by Paul Parey, at Berlin. The 
name is an odd one, being suggested perhaps by trade reasons. Its 
connection with Vilmorin’s Les Fleurs des Pleine Terre seems to be 
historical and commercial, as Vilmorin’s Blumengartneret is very 
greatly superior to the early editions of the French work, although 
Les Fleurs des Pleine Terre has had a long, honorable, and useful 
career. The work of Voss does not exclude greenhouse plants, as 
might be imagined... It includes all the most important fruits, flowers, 
vegetables, and ornamental plants cultivated in Germany, and there- 
fore really amounts to a monograph of the whole horticultural world 
from the German point of view. The nomenclature is probably too 
radical for the German seedsmen, who grow many of the flower-seeds 
that are circulated by American dealers. It would be hard to over- 
praise this work. In his studies for the Cyclopedia of American Horti- 
culture, the writer has come to believe that Vilmorin’s Blumengéartnerei 
is in many respects the best monograph of the garden plants of the 
world that has appeared in the nineteenth century.— WILHELM MILLER, 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
THE SOCIETY FOR PLANT MORPHOLOGY AND 
PHYSIOLOGY. 
YALE MEETING, DECEMBER 27, 28, 1899. 
Tuis society met, with the American Society of Naturalists and the 
affiliated scientific societies, at Yale University, with Professor J. M. 
Macfarlane as president. The following officers were elected for the 
ensuing year: president, D. P. Penhallow; vice presidents, Roland 
Thaxter and Erwin F. Smith; secretary-treasurer, W. F. Ganong. The 
following new members were elected: Oakes Ames, J. M. Coulter, 
Carrie M. Derick, B. M. Duggar, A. W. Evans, M. A. Howe, L. R. 
