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Library during six winter months, for ave and discussion of 
_ rosnsisolod with gardening. There is also a “ eee sot oer 
os : ‘s 
Among the contents of the Journal are letters ie celia men 
at home and abroad, including some interesting if rather trivial 
‘«‘ Reminiscences of Kew” by Mr. Hemsley. The List of ‘ Living 
Past Kewites” tells more forcibly than any narration could do of 
the widespread influence of Kew, and of the various excellent posts 
which are open to a gardener who sticks to his work and uses his 
arate We hope that some day the Jorhat gn pagent us a 
list of those who have died; such a list would contain 
at least as diseeiuibet in the annals of botany and “hortoulbere 
as any of those now livin 
The ‘Garden Notes” seem to us the weakest part of the Journal. 
We are glad to learn that ‘‘ Mr. Nicholson is preparing a catalogue 
of the hardy ligneous plants cultivated in Kew, ’ but we should 
have been more pleased with some definite announcement as to the 
publication of the Guide to the Gard absence of which is a 
serious drawback to the intelligent 5 Lebaron of them - 
sidering the energy displayed at Kew in so many meer it is to 
y 
be phage that this important adjunct to the usefulness of the 
The Ferns of South Africa. By Tuomas R. Sur, F.R.H.S. London: 
Wesley. 8vo, pp. iv, 275. 159 plates. Price £1 1s. Od. 
x are glad that Mr. Sim has given us a comprehensive hand- 
book of South en Ferns, the usefulness of which we suggested 
when noticing (Journ. Bot. 1891, 253) his Ferns of Kaffraria. That 
k may 1 
m has evidently aimed at producing a book which shall be 
asat vc the intelligent are and at the sg time acceptable 
Sim seems to ‘be aware 0 
The peng oer are full, and evidently for the most part based 
upon ample material. We are glad to find that Mr. Sim has 
Feeds ‘i ihe _apecis - key which he has ihe stad for the 
upon the a Abts who is also the illustrator of the work. The local 
distribution is carefully worked out, an the synonymy is given 
very fully, although we occasionally doubt whether the correct (i.e. 
the oldest) name has been retained. The plan of placing a period 
between the name and the authority—thus, ‘ ‘Pteris Buchanani. 
