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to persons interested in their protection, but as a remedy 

 against uprooting such species from other lands, it is sug- 

 gested that legislation should be secured forbidding the 

 collection of certain plants anywhere unless permission of 

 the owner of the land is secured. Our various plant pro- 

 tection societies could profitably draft such bills, present 

 them to the different state legislatures and urge their pas- 

 sage. Only those plants in great need of protection should 

 be included in such bills. Otherwise they would probably 

 be defeated ; for the people feel that they have a right to 

 the flowers in wild lands. 



BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



Indian Gardening and Planting of Calcutta, though 

 hailing from a point far beyond what are usually consid- 

 ered centers for such things, is one of the most practical 

 and instructive of the gardening ptiblications that come 

 to this office, a fact which we have indicated by the fre- 

 quency with which we quote from it. It began its twelfth 

 volume in January, last, much improved in appearance 

 and with a transposition in its title which makes the 

 planting section the leader. It has our best wishes for the 

 success it so well merits. 



We have been accustomed to recommend Harriet L. 

 Keeler's "Native Trees" to the general reader, as the best 

 tree-book for his purpose to be found in America, and ap- 

 parently others have been of the same mind for more than 

 ten thousand copies have been sold in a little less than 

 three years. Now comes "Our Northern Shrubs" by the 

 same author which is worthy of an equally cordial recep- 

 tion. It is planned upon the same lines as her first book 

 and consists of one or more photographs of each species, 

 with scientific descriptions arranged under such heads as 

 bark, wood, leaves, calyx, corolla, stamens, fruit, range, 

 etc., followed by matter of more or less popular character. 

 The photographs are excellent, and the author most ex- 

 cels in the thorough knowledge of her subject displayed. 

 One takes up the book to find out about a plant and after 



