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Something new in the way of notebooks is embodied in 

 Prof. D. S. Harthne's ''Guide to Note-Taking in Nature 

 Study." This is a sort of pocket portfoUo containing loose 

 sheets for notes, each sheet a little smaller than a postal card. 

 The essential part of the Guide, however, is a series of printed 

 headings for the divisions of nature intended as an index to the 

 notes. Along with these headings are printed many quotations 

 from nature literature which the author suggests ought to put 

 one in a worthy attitude. The Guide is for sale by the author 

 at the State Normal School, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



The Fifth edition of L. H. Bailey's ''Principles of Fruit 

 Growing" has appeared as one of the volumes in the Macmil- 

 lan Company's Rural Science Series. The fact that the book in 

 its original form was reprinted at least twenty times attests its 

 merit, and the new edition has been further improved by being 

 carefully re-arranged and re-written. At present it consists of 

 ten chapters, which exhaustively discuss the location, tillage, 

 fertilizers, layout and care of all kinds of orchards in temperate 

 regions, with directions for spraying, gathering, and marketing 

 the fruit. Practically everybody who owns an up-to-date or- 

 chard has a copy of the book, and all who expect to become 

 orchardists had better get one. The new edition costs $1.75. 



"A Spring Flora for High Schools," consisting of a key 

 to the species that bloom before July, with a rather untechnicai 

 description of each, by Doctors C. H. Cowles of the University 

 of Chicago, and J. G. Coulter of the University High School, 

 Normal, III, has been issued by the American Book Company. 

 The Key will be most useful in the States north of the Ohio 

 and east of the Mississippi, but will apply to some extent to 

 regions beyond. The authors disclaim any attempt to include 

 all the spring flowering plants in the region, selecting, instead, 

 the more conspicuous species which "every amateur botanist 

 should know." In the opinion of the reviewer, however, every 



