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A Plea for hardy plants, with suggestions for their effective 

 arrangement, by J. Wilkinson Elliott, has been reprinted from the 

 Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 1895, with 

 additional plans and copious and exquisite illustrations by J. Horace 

 McFarland and others, and issued from the press of Doubleday, Page 

 & Co. 



A delightfully entertaining little book on Children's Gardens, by 

 the Honorable Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, better known under her maiden 

 name of Alicia Amherst, has heen published hy the Macmillans. 



A sketch of the life and labors of Sir William Hooker, with por- 

 trait, is begun by his son, Sir Joseph Hooker, in the Annals of 

 Botany for December. 



A portrait of Schumann forms the frontispiece to the December 

 number of the Monatsschrift fur Kakteenkunde. 



