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single house, where they collectively get the handling that best suits 
their average needs while it is not precisely adapted to any one spe- 
cies, is so far overcome at Kew that representatives of the great Eng- 
lish plant houses sometimes go there for training. Mr. Nicholson is 
at once a good gardener and a lover and student of plants, and he 
has had the assistance of the best specialists at Kew and elsewhere, 
so that the Dictionary, as now completed, is a work alike valuable to 
the student of plants and their amateur and professional grower, and 
it cannot be spared from the shelves wherever plants are grown in 
variety. Ti 
Bailey's Botany.!— Carrying out his well-known ideas that botany 
in the secondary schools should begin with the commoner and grosser 
plants rather than by the use of those demanding the aid of the micro- 
scope, Professor Bailey has added another to the series of text-books 
already well and favorably known. Observation, experiment, and 
thought are thrust at the pupil throughout it, and the author very 
neatly acknowledges his obligation to hundreds of young people in 
many places for instruction “in the point of view,” for the book, he 
tells us, is made for the pupil and, therefore, most appropriately views 
things as he sees them, even though it may enlarge his view of them 
before they are dropped. 
Notes. — Under the guidance of Professors F lahault and Geddes, 
the late Robert Smith had begun the preparation of a series of botanical 
maps of Scotland, and since his death two sheets, respectively of 
Edinburgh and vicinity and northern Perthshire, have been issued in. 
convenient pocket form, with a brief descriptive pamphlet, by John 
Bartholomew & Co. of Edinburgh. 
W. N. Suksdorf has recently distributed excerpts from the Deutsche 
botanische Monatsschrift, extending over the period between Novem- 
ber, 1898, and June, rgor, in which are published descriptions of a 
Considerable species of Washington plants believed by him to be 
new to science. 
Several new species and varieties of Californian plants are described 
by H. M. Hall in the Botanical Gazette for June. 
Professor Dudley contributes an interesting and well-illustrated 
Paper on the Big Basin Redwood Park to the Forester for July. 
y Bailey, L. H. p An elementary text for schools. New York, The 
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