296 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
phase of outdoor gardening as practised in various parts of the 
United States is dealt with by Mr. Bailey, and his advice and in- 
struction may be accepted as trustworthy in the great majority of 
instances. The author rightly guards himself from being held 
responsible for failures that his readers may suffer in carrying—or 
Mr. Bailey gives an excellent index to his Manual, in which we 
note some peculiarities.. i 
become easy to pronounce, they have undergone a slight change 
ppeal to every householder and cottager, not only in 
the States, but throughout the English-speaking world.—J. W. 
Mr. A. B. Jackson has compiled, at the request of the Duchess 
of Northumberland, a Catalogue of Hardy Trees and Shrubs grow- 
ing mn the grounds of Syon House, Brentford, which has been 
printed by Messrs. West, Newman & Co. in a neat little volume. 
WE regret to announce the death at St. Raphael on the 3rd o 
October, at the age of 58, of Dr. Metcutor TREvB, whose n is 
inseparably connected with botanical investigation at Buiten 
d of zy. WinutaM Hunt Painter, which occurred at 
Shrewsbury on the 12th, in the 76th year of his age, and of 
whose work we hope to give some account later. 
Looxine into the recently published Letters of John Stuart 
Mill, with a view to ascertaining whether his interest in botany 
found any place therein, the Editor was surprised to find one 
addressed “to J. Britten,” described ag “a sharp rebuke to an 
importunate correspondent.” As, however, it was written in 1858 
it is hardly necessary to say that the letter was not addressed to 
the Editor, but to “another man of the same name.” 
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NewspaPer Borany.—‘ The ‘wild marsh marigolds’ which 
furnish such a brilliant a of golden holeogcs gleaming in 
¢ trom the roadside ditches around London 
are called by most country folk by the dreadfull i 
‘fleabane.’”— Westminster exalt, Sept. 22. SSE ES 
