BOOKS AND WRITERS 



The publishers of Underwood's ''Our Native Ferns" 

 inform us that this book is no longer in print. It is the only 

 complete descriptive manual of North American ferns. Issued 

 originally in 1880 it has gone through six editions and is 

 regarded as a classic by all fern students. The rapid advances 

 in the study of ferns has rendered even the latest edition out of 

 date, but it is to be hoped that a revised edition may be forth- 

 coming. 



Fifteen years ago, a small magazine with the large title of 

 Ohio' State University Naturalist began publication at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. Some time later the name was changed to the 

 Ohio Naturalist and this title it has borne up to the present. 

 Hereafter, however, it is to be known as the Ohio Journal of 

 Science, the official organ of the Ohio State University Scien- 

 tific Society and of the Ohio Academy of Science. With the 

 new title goes an increase in size and a thoroughly grown-up 

 appearance. The former editor, Professor John H. Schaffner, 

 of the Botanical Department of the University, will continue 

 to direct the new magazine, an indication that it will suffer no 

 diminution in interest and value. 



A new book by Edward A. White in Macmillan's "Rural 

 Text-book Series" is entitled ''The Principles of Floriculture.'' 

 This is not, as one might infer, a guide for the amateur 

 gardener, but is directed more particularly to those who make 

 flower-growing a business. The bulk of the volume is given 

 up to a description of various forms of glass houses and the 

 plants usually grown in them, but the opening chapters deal with 

 the develophient of the cut flower industry and market condi- 

 tions, and later chapters discuss the growing of cut flower 

 crops, foliage plants, plants for forcing and the like. The 

 book appears to be a careful summary of modern methods 

 without the expression of any very decided opinions by the 



