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Columnar or very tall trees, — Trees resistant to smoke, — Trees 

 best adapted to calcareous soils, — Fruit trees, — etc., etc. Under 

 Chapter III are discussed such topics as The conservation of 

 good scenery, — Sign boards must go, — The problem of the 

 country roads, — Planting for winter effect, — Planting plan, — 

 The finished picture. 



The book is well illustrated mainly with half-tones designed to 

 make clear the text. The illustrations include pictures of tree 

 groups and of single trees, of tools and of methods of using them, 

 of planting plans and of methods of tree propagation, of tree 

 pests and of caring for injuries. One discrepancy between text 

 and illustration was noted. On page 51, under the topic "Care 

 of seedlings," a method of shading seedlings is described with 

 reference to figure 28 as illustration. This figure, however, 

 proves to be a picture of a "stick of buds" for grafting purposes. 

 Probably there may be discovered other discrepancies of this 

 sort as well as errors in spelling overlooked in proofreading, 

 but such errors are certainly not numerous, and the present 

 writer does not believe that a review is the place to publish a 

 list of errata as is often done. 



Part II on the "Identification of trees" is, as already noted, 

 like the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin 

 which has already been briefly reviewed in Torreya (Feb., 1912) 

 by Taylor. For those who may not have seen that review, it may 

 be noted that Part II consists of the following parts: Explanation 

 of terms; Key to genera and species; based on bud, scar, and 

 leaf characters, and finally the descriptive portion. In the last- 

 mentioned portion, each species is given two pages, one of fine 

 print descriptive of habit, bark, twigs, leaves, buds, fruit, with 

 "comparisons," distributions, and wood description; the other 

 page is devoted to half-tone illustrations of whole tree, bark, 

 fruit, and twig. The descriptions appear to be adequate and 

 the illustrations are well chosen. Both native and commonly 

 cultivated species are described. 



In conclusion the opinion may be expressed that this book is 

 one which will meet with very general approval, and that the 



