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trees, yet we find the Tomato, Tobacco, Pepper and Potato. It is odd, 
too, to say the least, that in a treatment of the Conifers which includes 
Pinus monophylla (which, by the way, the anthor confuses with other 
nut pines ”)no mention is made of Pinus ponderosa, P. lambertiana or 
Pseudotsuga taxifolia. Of the illustrations little need be said, more 
than that many of them are “ trade cuts” from the catalogues of seeds- 
men, many of them possessing the characteristic exaggeration of such 
cuts. The figure of Indian Corn on page 287, with fourteen ears, will 
not tend to give one confidence in the truthfulness of the illustrations. 
—CHARLES E. Bessey. 
