NATIVE AMERICAN FRUITS. 279 
flowers. The plant i is coming up this year, and it is satisfactory to 
ro that it is in a position whence it is not likely to be exter- 
ae e glad to notice the absence from the Flora of Kent of 
the absurd “ English names” which too frequently disfigure local 
floras, and which are painfully conspicuous in the Flora of Cheshire, 
where even the critical species of Rubi are furnished with these 
useless appendages. Plants with well-known English equivalents 
au is ed 
plant-names in use in ¢. y: S a set-off it may be men- 
tioned that Mr. Moore gives us a full index, in which specific 
raced, 
n oe areful and excellent printing of both, the Flora of Middlesex 
seems aie been taken as a model, and no better could have 
such works, and both, from the numerous interesting notes they 
contain, are well worth the attention of botanists who are in no 
way associated with the counties with which the works are con- 
cern i 
duty towards them by sending our readers to me books his abil 
both of which deserve the highest commendatio 
ine Britten. 
Native American Fruits. 
Sketch of the Evolution be a gees kept By L. 4H. Bers 
York: The Mderhillan Co., 1898. Pric 
mer is a refreshing originality about Poidiencs sae s books, 
and the one we have just read is no exception to the rule. This 
sketch ‘of the evolution of some of the commonest native American 
fruits is historical as well as botanical. With the story of the 
Bush-Fruits. By F. W. Carp. 8vo, pp. xii, 587, oe 113 figures. 
New 
ea often in disappointment and sometimes ruin, more rarely in 
success. on ne pon — out very strongly, saa ‘the latent 
value of c plan It is sometimes suggested that man 
should let aA on aah rest satisfied with the cultivation of the 
ducts he has already e eae niet ey peepee: the 
advantage of starting afresh in a new country with the native plants: 
of this the story of the vines is . rrinarkable iisebeatime: So long 
