220 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
muddled in, without the least poetic feeling for what she was 
about, and, as a result, a host of fine things are called after neg: 
and cries both to reason and heaven to be iw away” (p. 1 
“One often in a garden longs to know what Adam called the 
things. He no Greek or Latin at any rate. Perhaps, if we 
took children thts a garden and invited them to invent names, we 
should get something more attractive than the atrocious words we 
are called upon to suffer at present” (p. 10 
It must be admitted =~ et Phillpotts is not fettered by 
any regard for existing nam e writes “ Amygdalyus” and 
«« Ampherephis ”’ & seis “ Biglovia ” we ° ithe lik ” (p. 58), 
so” (p. 36) ; Weigela “should be Dievilla by the way” (p. 1 
Nor do adjectives fare bette tno “ tormentosa ” aa 81, 82) 
“ramentacia”’ (p. eis ibaa” (p-117). The same ender 
runs through the book: we have “La Mortala” (pp 8, 67); 
“ Sibthorpe” (p. 21); “ Nicholas” (for N Nitchan ath whose 
Dictionary rdening Mr. he Ager is ey cat aes 
p79) sc a (p. 49), and of course “ coco 4 
with exultation caer words, when first he found the little wer 
blue beauty, ‘ Plante nova et tota elegans’” (p. 44): Mr. William 
(108). of Kew is ‘one of the greatest of English botanists ”’ 
(p. 1 
fifty of the shrubs mentioned—we can hardly say described. 
These are — rather than attractive, and are from p hoto- 
graphs by the author: peal orenge> is a shy flowerer, but, 
hearing doubtless of my booklet (sic), it performed this year, and 
I photograph a spray of it ssncndinga” (p. 65). 
A History of ao in the United cht from the Earliest 
Time e End of the Nineteenth Century. By J. 
epeaied Grex, Se.D., F.R RS. Fellow and Lecturer of 
Downing College, Cambridge, | Demy 8yo, pp. xii, 648 
Dent & Sons. Price 10s. 6d. n 
saree a aa be kn a of the raliiest. We are not often 
inclined to adopt the omen posite publishers are accustom 
to place upon the wrapper eir books as an altogether un- 
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