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designed to serve as a text in plant anatomy. With this purpose, 

 the author has covered the subject in two parts: Part 1, General 

 Anatomy ; Part 2, Economic Plants. 



The first part serves as an excellent survey of the general field 

 of the anatomy of higher vascular plants. Here the author has out- 

 Hned and illustrated the whole field as he sees it with particular 

 attention to definitions and clarification of terms. The second part 

 consists of sixteen chapters, each concerned with the detailed de- 

 scription of the anatomy of a specific economic plant in both its 

 nutritive and its reproductive structures. Thirteen families are 

 represented, comprising the following genera : Zea, Triticum, 

 Allium, Cannabis, Beta, Raphanus, Medicago, Pisum, Linum, 

 Gossypium, Apium, Ipomoea, Solanum, Lycopersicum, Cucurbita, 

 and Lactuca. 



In both parts the author has contributed valuable discussion, 

 both in the summary outline of the general subject, and the more 

 compendious considerations of the particular economic plants 

 treated. The presentation of plant anatomy with special reference to 

 common field plants is particularly valuable, both from the botanical 

 and the pedagogical points of view. It is a matter of common ex- 

 perience for teachers of general and more advanced courses to dis- 

 cover too often that detailed information about obvious features of 

 everyday plants is hard to obtain. While readers of the Hayward 

 text will not find a large number of species or all the details they 

 may desire with respect to any one, this book is certainly valuable 

 for reference, and should serve admirably as text. 



Two Books for Amateur Gardeners* 



George T. Hastings 



The first of these is a booklet first published two years ago 

 meant, as the title suggests, to give help and suggestions for the 



* The Northern Garden — Week by Week. Daisy T. Abbott. University of 

 Minnesota Press. 1938, second printing 1940. 94 pages, paper cover, 75 

 cents. 



The Indoor Gardener. Daisy T. Abbott. University of Minnesota Press. 

 1939. viii + 117 pages. $1.50. 



