No. 453.] 



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Popular botanizing has received an admirable aid in Miss Niles's 

 ''Bog-trotting for Orchids" (New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), 

 a book for lovers of the country, written by a nature lover. \\\ which 

 is included a compiled synopsis of the orchids of New England. 

 Plain and tricolor half-tones in large number are interleaved with the 



An illustrated account of the botanical garden of Carlsaue (1580), 

 the first of its class in Germany, is published by Junge in Gartenflora 

 of April I. 



A biographic sketch of Askenasy, with portrait, appears in the 

 Berkhtc der deutschen botanischen GescUschaft of April 1 1 . 



A portrait of Professor Rothrock is contained in Forestry and 

 Irrigation for May, 



A biographic sketch of Karl Schumann, with portrait, is contained 

 in the April Monatsschrift fiir Kakteenkundc. 



