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to pay well for certain odd volumes to complete their 

 files, but these sold out of a set would take from it its 

 chief value. All the numbers of this magazine prev- 

 ious to volume IX are worth more than face value and 

 should be preserved. If for sale, we can usually find a 

 purchaser for them. 



BOOK NEWS. 



A new book of interest to fern students has appeared 

 in the John Lane Company's series of Handbooks of 

 Practical Gardening. This is ''The Book of Fern 

 Culture" by Alfred Hemsley. The author is a practi- 

 cal fern-grower of many years experience and gives 

 us a most business-like treatment of the subject in 

 hand. The book is written from the standpoint of the 

 gardener, rather than from that of the scientist and 

 while intended primarily for British readers is not con- 

 fined to native species but embraces all the ferns com- 

 monly cultivated either at home or abroad. The usual 

 directions regarding watering, potting, propagating, 

 etc., are given and then the various groups of ferns 

 such as the filmy ferns, climbing ferns Adiantums, etc.. 

 are taken up and the various specimens commented 

 upon. The names used are in general the ones com- 

 monly employed and little attention is paid to the quar- 

 rels of the nomenclaturists. Some twenty-five excel- 

 lent illutsrations of specimen ferns are included in the 

 book. The paper and press-work are very good, but 

 the proof-reading has evidently been done by persons 

 unacquainted with scientific terms. (New York. The 

 John Lane Co. 1008. $1.00 net). 



We have recently received from Dr. C. Brick, St. 

 Georgskirchof GI, Hamburg, Germany, a reprint of all 



