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and it is quite certain that only from the immense collections at 

 the Arnold Arboretum could the data for it have been derived. 



Intelligent amateurs, curators of botanical garden collections, 

 gardeners, professional nurserymen, and landscape architects 

 will all be forever in Mr. Rehder's debt. For there is no other 

 book in its field, and it would be difficult to think of a better one. 



It naturally invites comparison with Professor Bailey's 

 "Manual of Cultivated Plants," issued by the same publishers. 

 Actually the two books complement each other. One includes 

 those garden plants relatively common in American gardens, 

 while the Rehder book takes all the cultivated woody species 

 within his area, excluding the tropics and warm temperate re- 

 gions. The completeness of the book may be gauged perhaps by 

 such statements as these: In the neW book Rosa contains 72 

 species; Picea, 32; Viburnum, 4.5;Berberis, 49; Salix, 63; Quercus, 

 58; and Rhododendron (including Azalea) 62. The other genera 

 are treated in an equally comprehensive way, and there are keys 

 to the families, to the genera, and, of course, to the species under 

 each genus. Notes on varieties, on hardiness within the eight 

 different climatic zones the author recognizes, on the year in- 

 troduced into cultivation, and copious citations to illustrations, 

 together with a seventy-page three-column index make the book 

 a perfectly incomparable store-house of information on the woody 

 plants cultivated in America. Bibliographically the book is what 

 one would expect from the author of the monumental Bradley 

 Bibliography. It quite naturally follows the Vienna Code of 

 nomenclature, and the generic and family concepts that we have 

 come to associate with that code. 



Norman Taylor 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 Meeting of January 26, 1927 



This meeting was held at the Museum Building of the New 

 York Botanical Garden and was called to order at 3:30 P. M. 

 Mrs. Arabella Ogden McKee, 78 Morningside Drive, N. Y. C, 

 was elected to membership in the Club. The following resig- 

 nations were accepted : 



Mr. Rudolph A. Konnerth, 7541 — 113 St., Forest Hills, L. I. 



