﻿Miscellaneous 
  Intelligence. 
  325 
  

  

  III. 
  Botany. 
  

  

  1. 
  Field, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Garden 
  Botany. 
  By 
  Asa 
  Gray. 
  Re- 
  

   vised 
  by 
  L. 
  H. 
  Bailey. 
  Am. 
  Book 
  Co., 
  K 
  Y. 
  1895. 
  By 
  the 
  

   publication 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  edition 
  of 
  a 
  popular 
  treatise 
  on 
  our 
  more 
  

   common, 
  wild 
  and 
  cultivated 
  plants, 
  Professor 
  Gray 
  met 
  a 
  want 
  

   which 
  had 
  long 
  been 
  felt. 
  The 
  work 
  was 
  received 
  with 
  

   pleasure 
  and 
  used 
  with 
  profit 
  by 
  a 
  great 
  number 
  of 
  teachers 
  and 
  

   pupils 
  throughout 
  the 
  country, 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  ever 
  since 
  held 
  its 
  own. 
  

   But 
  for 
  some 
  years 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  apparent 
  that 
  the 
  treatise 
  could 
  

   be 
  made 
  more 
  useful 
  by 
  additions 
  and 
  modifications. 
  It 
  was 
  

   Professor 
  Gray's 
  intention 
  to 
  undertake 
  this 
  revision 
  himself, 
  but 
  

   a 
  great 
  increase 
  of 
  care 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  Synoptical 
  Flora 
  of 
  

   North 
  America, 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  defer 
  the 
  task, 
  and 
  the 
  wished-for 
  

   leisure 
  never 
  came. 
  After 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Professor 
  Gray 
  the 
  

   revision 
  was 
  taken 
  in 
  hand 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  energetic 
  systematists 
  

   and 
  carried 
  by 
  him 
  through 
  a 
  good 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Polypetalre. 
  But 
  

   certain 
  reasons 
  led 
  him 
  to 
  the 
  relinquishment 
  of 
  the 
  work, 
  and 
  so 
  

   the 
  whole 
  matter 
  remained 
  without 
  change 
  until 
  it 
  was 
  taken 
  up 
  

   by 
  Professor 
  L. 
  H. 
  Bailey, 
  of 
  Cornell 
  University. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  apparent 
  that 
  the 
  revision 
  of 
  a 
  treatise 
  constructed 
  on 
  the 
  

   broad 
  lines 
  of 
  the 
  Field, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Garden 
  Botany, 
  presents 
  

   peculiar 
  difficulties. 
  Not 
  only 
  is 
  it 
  very 
  hard 
  to 
  know 
  what 
  to 
  

   add 
  and 
  what 
  to 
  leave 
  out, 
  but, 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  when 
  nomenclature 
  

   is 
  undergoing 
  so 
  many 
  changes 
  of 
  one 
  kind 
  and 
  another, 
  it 
  is 
  

   almost 
  impossible 
  to 
  preserve 
  consistency 
  throughout. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Bailey 
  has 
  been 
  successful 
  in 
  a 
  high 
  degree 
  in 
  meet- 
  

   ing 
  all 
  these 
  difficulties. 
  Although 
  he 
  is 
  inclined 
  personally 
  to 
  

   favor 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  systems 
  of 
  nomenclature, 
  he 
  has 
  preserved 
  

   in 
  a 
  remarkable 
  manner 
  the 
  system 
  which 
  was 
  preferred 
  by 
  Pro- 
  

   fessor 
  Gray. 
  Moreover, 
  the 
  additions 
  and 
  omissions 
  have 
  been 
  

   determined 
  with 
  excellent 
  judgment, 
  and 
  have 
  resulted 
  in 
  keeping 
  

   the 
  treatise 
  on 
  nearly 
  the 
  lines 
  laid 
  down 
  by 
  its 
  author. 
  A 
  

   careful 
  examination 
  of 
  these 
  changes 
  has 
  convinced 
  the 
  present 
  

   writer 
  that 
  the 
  proportions 
  have 
  been 
  well 
  maintained 
  through- 
  

   out. 
  Some 
  species, 
  which 
  it 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  pleasure 
  to 
  see 
  

   in 
  the 
  revision, 
  are 
  lacking, 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  species 
  given 
  

   which 
  might 
  perhaps 
  have 
  been 
  well 
  spared, 
  but, 
  as 
  a 
  whole, 
  the 
  

   selection 
  is 
  good, 
  and 
  the 
  book 
  is 
  sure 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  great 
  use 
  to 
  the 
  

   mass 
  of 
  pupils 
  and 
  amateurs 
  employing 
  it. 
  Professor 
  Bailey 
  is 
  

   to 
  be 
  sincerely 
  congratulated 
  on 
  his 
  work. 
  G. 
  l. 
  g. 
  

  

  2. 
  A 
  Popular 
  Treatise 
  on 
  the 
  Physiology 
  of 
  Plants, 
  for 
  the 
  

   use 
  of 
  Gardeners 
  or 
  for 
  Students 
  of 
  Horticulture 
  aud 
  Agriculture, 
  

   By 
  Dr. 
  Paul 
  Sorauer, 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Experimental 
  Station 
  at 
  

   the 
  Royal 
  Pomological 
  Institute, 
  in 
  Proskau 
  (Silesia). 
  Trans- 
  

   lated 
  by 
  F. 
  E. 
  Weiss, 
  B.Sc. 
  F.L.S.\ 
  Professor 
  of 
  Botany 
  at 
  the 
  

   Owens 
  College, 
  Manchester. 
  London, 
  Longmans, 
  Green 
  & 
  Co., 
  

   1895. 
  Some 
  of 
  our 
  older 
  readers 
  will 
  doubtless 
  remember 
  the 
  

   valuable 
  Theory 
  of 
  Horticulture, 
  by 
  Professor 
  Lindley, 
  which 
  

   was 
  introduced 
  to 
  American 
  students 
  in 
  an 
  edition 
  revised 
  and 
  

  

  