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tributes one on Chinese conifers, Mr. Alfred Rehder one on those 
of North America, Herr Franz Zeman one on cultivation, Herr 
leaves, the latter half of the volume being occupied by the 
description of the deg and varieties in cultivation under their 
genera arranged alphabetically. 
The text- ditaksadions. are admirable, but difficult to find, as 
there is no list of them and no chor nor are they often associated 
with the text in their neighbourhood. They include fine pictures 
from photographs of specimen trees, : an interesting series of seed- 
lings and juvenile forms, and very good analytical details of 
species, dealing, for instance, with Swart -seven forms of Abies, 
eight of Cupressus, twenty-one of Juniperus, a of Larix, an 
twenty-one of Picea, though Pinus is not dealt with on quite 
liberal a scale. There are also six foldin ng see with figures of 
more than one hundred cones. The whole book has to be printed 
on a surfaced paper which renders it inordinately heavy, and the 
coloured plates add but little to its attractiveness. Pictorially it 
is more sumptuous than the Manual of the Conifere which the 
late Adolphus Kent prepared for Messrs. Veitch, with which it, of 
course, invites comparison; but it cannot be compared with that 
work for valentine completeness of treatment. 
G. 8. Bouncer. 
Plant Life. By a wil J. Bretuanp Farmer. Home Uni- 
ea ae ry. Williams and Norgate. Price 1s. 256 pp. 
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views every newcomer with suspicion, almost with a preconceived 
dita The little book that seems to profess an exhaustive 
treatment of a great subject up to a Pes gg standard meget 
an even deeper indignation. Prof. mer, however, has m 
no such mistake in carrying out the ‘diftealy task that has fallen 
to his lot. His little book is most original both in conception and 
in execution : it makes no pretence to exhaust any topic ; and— 
what is to our mind its greatest merit—it does not do the reader's 
thinking for him, but is essentially suggestive. Not only does he 
face such difficult problems as the réle of enzymes in nutrition, 
but he illustrates the differences between plant and anim 
& io eased y so account of such an organism as Chlamy- 
domo and discusses ‘“non-cellular” or coenocytic types of 
organisation, the distribu tion of the stereom in relation to the 
hanical necessities of the plant, and Lape re such 
< those of climbing, pave epiphytic itic plants. 
main i a of normal nutrition are ate dt the 
exposition of the perenne exceptio » ani 
principles of reproduction are eee oe cisely— 
t with, whilst throughout cl S are 
