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didly given, both for and against the author’s opinions, and cannot but 
prove of great value to every unprejudiced reader 
In conclusion we may remark that no fear of. scientific BSE ORIN: 
need deter any one from procuring these volumes. They vey av 
amount of instruction in a thoroughly comprehensible sate Re 
FIELD, Forest, AND GARDEN BoraNy.*—We are glad to be able to 
announce the approaching issue (if not already in tna market) of a work 
n b 
whether botanists or gardeners, as well as of those who make either 
botany or gardening a nessa pe ‘indeed of every one who likes to 
know the name of a common plan our region, either wild or culti- 
pen to have in hand, and one in which all reasonable facilities, in the way 
of copious Analytical Keys, Index, and typographical arrangement are 
troduced for this very purpose. tas gh 2, te species, under 947 gen- 
asonable to suppose that every plant from foreign parts, which we 
a may cultivate, is described in a book ra less than 400 pages. As already 
7 intimated, however, all our common wild plants which are worthy of 
notice, and all the more generally aliaa garden and hot-house plants, 
ate here described in terms, from which, so s as it is possible, all tech- 
nicalities are eliminated, and all synonymy is 1l 
A special advantage that the book offers is, a it will enable students 
and teachers of botany to use in their study and teaching, exotic plants 
Which will often present forms of structure that are not represented at all 
in our fields and woods, or even introduce the knowledge of whole nat- 








a dy to be carried on in winter with much greater facility than ever 
ore, 
Another feature of the work will be very acceptable to many persons, 
art concerning the ferns, contributed by Professor Eaton 
of Yale College. All our common native ferns, as well as those usually 
With the meanings of the few technical terms necessarily used, 
and who reads with care the characters of the Natural Order. 
AS the author says in his Preface, ‘the great difficulties of the under- , 
S have been to keep ‘the book within the proper compass, by a 
exclusion of all extraneous and unnecessary matter, and to deter- 
ee a RA 
Tanz orest, and Gard fany; a simple introduction to the common pla ants of = 
€s, east of the Mississippi, both wild and porketo By Asa Gray, Fisher rege 
tago: S, in Harvard Tee New York: T Phinney, Blakeman ¢ Co. 
ames ES & Co, 1868. (Ri d from advance sheets.) 
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