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REVIEWS 



Andrews's Practical Course In Botany'*' 



The versatile author of interesting reminiscences of the Civil 

 War period, several novels, numerous articles in newspapers, in 

 popular and semi-popular magazines, horticultural society trans- 

 actions, etc., and of "Botany all the year round "f has outdone 

 her previous efforts in the attractive high-school text-book before 

 us. Born and educated in Georgia, she has traveled widely in 

 this country and abroad, and her books show less provincialism 

 than do some other current texts. Most American botanical text- 

 books have been written in or near the glaciated region, where the 

 population is dense and wealth abundant and most high-schools 

 well supplied with apparatus. Miss Andrews's books are well 

 adapted for more thinly settled regions, but not for them alone 

 by any means, for while the last one was in preparation, she 

 visited (among others) several schools in New York City to 

 find out just what sort of a botanical text-book was needed there. 

 Much of the material for the new book was gathered in person at 

 such botanical centers as Washington, St. Louis, and Auburn, 

 Ala. At the latter place she received considerable assistance 

 from Prof. Francis E. Lloyd, which is acknowledged on the title- 

 page and elsewhere. Some of the half-tone illustrations were 

 obtained from the Missouri Botanical Garden, the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and other sources, and some are from her 

 own photographs. 



The new book differs from its predecessor in having about 25 

 per cent, more pages, many more half-tone illustrations (15 of 

 them covering a full page each, and called plates), and fewer 

 line-drawings, and in a somewhat different arrangement of sub- 

 ject-matter. The main chapters are headed (i) The seed, (2) 

 Germination and growth, (3) The root, (4) The stem, (5) Buds 

 and branches, (6) The leaf, (7) The flower, (8) Fruits, (9) The 

 response of the plant to its surroundings, and (10) Cryptogams. 



* A practical course in botany, with especial reference to its bearings on agricul- 

 ture, economics and sanitation. By E. F[rances] Andrews, x + 374 PP-. including 

 526 text-figures. New York (American Book Co.), Dec. 1911. $1.25. 



1 302 pp. 543 figs. New York (American Book Co.), 1903. Reviewed by 

 C. R. B[arnes] in Bot. Gaz. 35: 439. June, 1903. 



