602 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXV. 
such a mass of useful and thoroughly reliable information, and when 
we consider the painstaking care and discrimination with which it 
has been done, we cannot sufficiently thank the authors, Professor 
Bessey, to whom the inception of the work was due, and the 
several workers who are given credit in the preface. Their work is 
undoubtedly destined to exert. a far-reaching influence and act as a 
stimulus everywhere. Is it too much to hope that before long every 
state and even much lesser divisions may be as well explored botan- 
ically as Nebraska ? CoLTON RUSSELL. 
The Cyclopedia of American Horticulture.! — The third volume 
of this important work, the earlier volumes of which were noticed in 
the Waturalist for April and September, 1900, sustains the high 
character with which the Cyclopedia began, — as, indeed, was to be 
expected, since the work as a whole was planned and the preparation 
of the later volumes well in hand before the appearance of the first 
volume. Leaving a fuller notice of the entire work until the con- 
cluding volume shall have been received, which will scarcely be 
later than autumn, it may be said now that among the subjects of 
special interest in the present volume are the revisions of Narcissus, 
Nymphza, Pzonia, Papaver, and Pelargonium, representatives of 
which are commonly cultivated in our flower gardens in the open 
air; Nepenthes, Odontoglossum, Oncidium, Oxalis, and Primula, 
treated as house plants ; the genera Opuntia, Picea, Pinus, Populus, 
Prunus, Pyrus, and Quercus, of botanical interest; the Orange, 
Peach, Pear, and Plum, of further interest to the fruit-grower ; 
Orchids and Palms, of comprehensive gardening contents ; and 
instructive articles on the physiology of plants, and plant breeding. 
T. 
The Flora of Cheshire. — J. Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord de 
Tabley, a man little heard of in this country as a botanist, but one 
of the most painstaking followers of one branch of that science, of 
the passing generation, affords a good illustration of the versatility 
of the English gentleman, for he was at once a poet of no "— 
attainments, an authority on numismatics, a conservative politician, 
and a man one of whose principal pleasures through life was direct 
and interested contact with nature. A quarter of a century ago . 
! Bailey, L. H., and Miller, W. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, NQ 
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1901. xv + 432 pp» II pls., 606 figs. 
