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inferior value.”’ The two reports which Mr. Carruthers has already 
issued in March and October indicate most successful results, = 
only in segue the disease but in suggesting cures, and, w 
is of still more importance, in advising measures that will mesealar 
it from coventry. 
Dante's Garden, “ with legends of the flowers,” by Rosemary A. 
Cotes (Methuen; sm. 8vo, pp. 110, price 3s. 6d. net), is a very 
pretty aa entirely unnecessary little book. If Dante had said 
muc out flowers, and if the author had dealt only with this, 
the eollnawen of passages might have been interesting; but he said 
very little. Mr. Paget Toynbee, who writes a short preface, says 
‘** sometimes a point has been stretched in order to include such 
flowers as the narcissus, the veronica, and the passion-flower [not 
to mention the daisy and the star of Bothlehiain} to which Dante 
does not fohually ce but the reader will probably not be inclined 
to cavil on this account.’’ That depends on the reader: for our- 
selves, we not Saige t aan ” at, but aed as absurd, the introduction 
of the passion-flower, which was not known to exist until long after 
Dante’s time. As to the “legends,” they are of the baseless order 
which cause confusion and despair to the critical folklorist: anything 
more ridiculous than the story of what happened to St. Augustine 
‘‘on his tours round the south of England’’ we have never met 
with, and his sermon on the daisy chain must be ae the out- 
come of the author’s by no means brilliant imagination 
nE Royal Horticultural Society has published a Calon of 
the re Libr. ary = 2s. 6d.), which should be of service to the 
Fellows of the Society and to others who may wish to consult the 
books stared at 117, Victoria Street, and who for that purpose need 
to know of what the library consists. A short introduction gives 
the history of its formation, mo body of the book being occupied by 
the catalogue proper, arran under authors. It appears to be 
carefully done, but it is to be Foseatted that each page 1s not headed 
with the name of the author under notice, as is done in all good 
catalogues : at present one opens upon “ Text Book of Botany” or 
« French edition,” and it is necessary to turn back to find the con- 
text. A short list of = MS. Journals and correspondence and of 
the portraits in the Society’s rooms is appended; the former 
include those of G. Don (1821-23), D. Douglas (1823-27), J. gee 
(1822-23), R. Fortune (1842-45), T. Hartweg (1836-47), J. Macra 
(1824-26), J. D. Parks (1823), and J. Potts (1821- —22). 
Tue Annals of Botany for December contains a ot! interesting 
biography of a Bentham by Sir Joseph Hooker 
AutHouer the language in which Dr. Greceseu’s new Flora of 
Roumania {Conaputtae Florei Romaniei : Bucur esti, Tipografica - 
Dreptatea; Berlin, Friedlander: 8vo, pp. 836: price 15 lei) is 
unfamiliar, a3 is evident that he has given us in this handsome and 
well-printed volume an extr remely careful account of the botany of 
t region. "The pibsoeraphy is both full and critical, and ingeaiee 
the plants of both e wri, Pa and recent collectors: thus the 
enumerated by Robert ownson in his Travels in Hungary 1797) 
