110 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
out, and a hypothetic scheme wae [penn to demonstrate a possible 
eee from one type to the 
HANDSOME volume on pet ish Pleasure Gardens, by Rose 
Stanish Nichols (large 8vo. cloth, pp. xxii-319; price aoe soak 
comes to us from the Macmillan Company, New York. It is 
prehensive, careful, and irelidabhs history of gardening from slasisil 
times down to the present day, embellished with ‘saree small 
illustrations in the text, which do not always come out very clearly, 
and a large number of excellent full-page blocks, taken from old 
books and modern photographs. The author has given, in reason- 
able compass, the result of a very complete course of reading, and 
has added to the value of the book by an excellent bibliography and 
a very full index. The volume should stand on the shelf next to 
Miss Jekyll’s book, to which it forms an admirable pendant. 
esses. Fiscuer, of Jena, are issuing what promises to be an 
excellent series of Vegetationsbilder, edited by Dr. G, Karsten and Dr. 
. Schenck. The series is to comprise eight parts, with six plates 
in ‘each, and the subscription price is M. 2.50; a si ingle part costs 
M. 4.00. The plates, which are quarto size, are reproductions from 
photographs, and each is accompanied by a sheet of genet 
ssr 
Schenck, depicts South Brazilian vegetation, and includes two 
plates illustrating the rank dense g rowth in the Sfopiedl rain forest, 
an excellent habit-figure of Cocos Rimansigfiind, a group of the 
inhabited tree Cecropia adenopus, a dead stem bearing epiphytes, 
and a wood of Araucaria brasiliana on the highlands of the state 
of Parang. The last-mentioned plate gives a somewhat disappoint- 
ing idea of this important southern conifer, and suggests that the 
and Moluce 
and is by Dr. Karsten. It comprises chiefly forest vegetation, iid 
includes a presumably good representation of the Nipa palm forma- 
tion. It would be well if, in such cases as the picture of epiphyte 
vegetation, some indication were given of the actual size of the 
jects. 
Proressor Sargent has issued two supplementary volumes of 
his Silva of of North America, in which the work is brought up to date 
by the addition of such arborescent Species as have been added to 
the flora since the work was ne n in 1890. Those who have fol- 
lowed the course of American botany as traceable in periodicals wi 
not be surprised to find that one of the volumes is almost entirely 
occupied ‘ descriptions and figures of recently described species of 
Crategus, sixty-nine in number; these admirable oe and detailed 
accounts will be of the greatest value in discrimi ing these nearly 
species. Several corrections ‘aa an admirable 
fore bre index complete a work which the author may well be ae 
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