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something of our common trees. It can be heartily commended to 
horticulturists, gardeners, and non-botanical tree planters. 
e illustrations are helpful, and are apparently quite accurate. 
The nomenclature is strictly that of the latest edition of “Gray’s 
Manual,” an error of judgment which can easily be corrected in a 
subsequent edition.—CHARLES E. Bessey. 
Bailey’s Rule Book.‘—Although not strictly a botanical work, 
this little book contains a good deal of botany, and very good botany, 
too. It should be in the teacher’s library, in the public schools, where 
nearly every chapter, non-botanical as well as botanical, will. be 
instructive. The chapters on Plant Diseases, Fungicides, Weeds, and 
Moss, Seed Tables, Collecting and Preserving, Names, Histories, and 
Statistics, are those dealing more especially with botanical topics. 
Under the first-mentioned topic are given in summary form such 
-descriptions of the general appearance of many of the fungi parasitic 
upon common plants as will enable anyone to recognize them, For 
‘horticulturists this chapter will be most helpful, but it will be scarcely 
-lessso for many a teacher of botany who is obliged to get on with a 
small library, especially as to works on the fungi—Cuar.es E. 
- Bessey. 
Brehm’s Thierleben, Kriechthiere und Lurche.’—The third 
edition of this well-known work, under direction of Professors Oscar 
Boettger and Pechuel Loesche, brings it up to the present date and 
adds to its previous well-earned reputation. The authors, as was to 
have been expected, dwell relatively more upon European species than 
upon those exotic to that country, but the small number of these does 
not materially disturb the balance of the book except in the depart- 
ment of the true Salamanders, where but one non-European species is 
figured. The descriptions of the habits of reptiles and batrachians 
are derived from the best sources, and indeed this work is the only one 
which is comprehensive and modern in this department, which may 
be regarded as trustworthy. The illustrations, from the incomparable 
pencil of Miitzel, are the best ever offered to the public in so cheap a 
‘The Horticulturalist’s Rule Book, a compendium of useful information for fruit 
growers, truck gardeners, florists, and others, completed to the beginning of the year 
1892, by L. H. Bailey. Second edition revised. 12mo., 215 pp. Rural Publish- 
ing Co., N. Y. 
5Dritte gaiizlich neuaubeitete Auflage ; herausg. v. Prof. Pechuel Loesche. Kriech- 
_ thiere u. Lurche, neubearbeitet von Prof. Dr. O. Boettger u. Prof. Dr. Pechuel 
se Leipzig u. Wien Bibliogr. Inst., 1892. } 
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