102 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
of his young trees; and, accordingly, the English forester feels bound 
to contrive a modus rivendi for rabbits and trees. Mr. impson, in 
ground game, save in special warrens; but Mr. Forbes is sanguine 
enough to believe in the efficacy of wire-netting and painting the 
stems. ‘'he present volume makes no pretence to be a manual of 
forestry : it is merely a collection of essays based on long practical 
experience of English estate forestry. e writer gives an interesting 
historical account of our forests, and discusses the possibility of their 
Nahe scons ‘ 
profitable extension, following ging State aid for 
or even in Scotland, is rightly insisted upon ; and some most prac- 
apters deal with methods 
tical chapte: sale, the nursery, landscape 
forestry, and park timber. Such a work nat lly contai thing of a 
purely botanical character: nor is the h in the ch deali 
eae = ee 
with the sylvicultural treatment of the chie species, regeneration, 
and pruning, that has not already been summarily stated in such 
works as Dr. Nisbet’s British Forest Trees and Studies in Forestry. 
When, in his chapter dealing briefly with fungoid, insect, and other 
enemies of our woodlands—a chapter disfigured by several misprints, 
such as ‘“ Marshall Wood” and ‘Dr. Massie”—the author deals 
with the larch Peziza, he evidently expects Opposition. ‘‘Is it,’’ he 
experience commands a respectful hearing. The book is illustrated 
wi re than twenty photographie p , most of which are 
valuable as really illustrating the text, whilst printing and binding 
leave nothing to be desired. Ga. oR: 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éc. 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on the 2nd of February, 
a paper by Mr. W. J. Tutcher was read upon some plants (including 
new species) found on the island of Hongkong, with one from Kow- 
