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year. Sir Joseph, we are glad to know, is in the enjoyment of 

 excellent health and is still at work. 



Herr Dorfler (III Barichgasse 36, Vienna) has issued two 

 more fascicles of the admirable series of Botaniker Portrats, of 

 which we last year commended the earlier instalments. Nothing 

 could be better than these reproductions, printed as they are on 

 card with facsimiles of signature, and accompanied by a short but 

 excellent biography. Each fascicle (of ten) costs 5 marks ; single 

 portraits cost 1 mark each. The third part contains two of 

 Rudbeck, four of Linnaeus (with facsimile of his writing), Haller, 

 Scopoli, N. J. Jacquin, and Allioni; the fourth, Wulfen, Ingen- 

 Housz, Hedwig, Gaertner, Kolreuter, Schreber, Pallas, Ehrhart, 

 Thunberg, and Lamarck. The excellence of the work is as remark- 

 able as its cheapness. 



Messrs. Routledge send us an extremely pretty little Garden 

 Anthology, beautifully printed, elegantly got-up, and of just the 

 size for the pocket. The selection of extracts, in prose and verse, 

 many from unhackneyed sources, made by Miss Rose Gardner, is 

 so good that one is sorry it is not better; but there are serious 

 omissions — e.g. there is nothing from Mr. Robert Bridges, although 

 some of his verses, such as 4< The pinks along my garden walks," 

 are eminently fitted for inclusion ; while we could well have spared 

 such early Victorian affectations as u Dora Waiting," by Mrs. 

 Meredith, better known by her maiden name (Louisa A. Twamley) 

 under which she published much verse, some of it quite pretty. 

 The appearance of the book is slightly marred by placing " by per- 

 mission of," &c, at the foot of so many extracts ; the usual method 

 of acknowledging these en bloc in the preface is to be preferred. 

 But the book is cheap at half-a-crown, and will give pleasure to 

 many garden-lovers when the weather will not allow them to enjoy 

 their gardens. There is a curious misprint on p. 125, where 

 11 Nowhere " should read M Now here." 



Messrs. Dulau and Co. publish a shilling volume of Lectures to 

 Sugar Planters, containing a summary of seven lectures l4 delivered 

 by the officers of the Imperial Department of Agriculture at Bar- 

 bados seven years ago." They deal with the natural history and 

 cultivation of the sugar-cane, and its insect pests and fungoid 

 diseases. Three are by Prof. J. P. D' Albuquerque, and one each 

 by Sir Daniel Morris, and Messrs. J. R. Bovell, H. Maxwell-Lefroy, 

 and A. Howard. 



The new edition of the late Rev. M. H. Arnold's Flora of Sussex, 

 which we mentioned (Journ. Bot. 1906, 289) as in preparation, has 

 appeared, and realizes the forebodings we then expressed as to its 

 unsatisfactory nature. As we pointed out (op. cit. 185) when 

 criticizing his contribution to the Victoria County History of 

 Sussex, Mr. Arnold had in no way kept himself an conrant with 

 our knowledge of the botany of the county, and this is evident 

 throughout the new edition of his Flora. With competent editing 

 it might have been made a useful book ; as it is, it can only be 

 regarded as a prelude to a satisfactory Flora of the county. In the 



