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youthful examples. John Goldie who explored parts of 

 Canada early in the last centur}^ lived to be 94, but even 

 this is not the limit, for a subscriber writes to say that her 

 great-grandmother, a botanist of note in her day, died at 

 the age of 104. This is certainly a clincher for our argu- 

 ment that botanists live longer than other people. 



BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



My Kalendar of Country Delights, by Helen Milman, 

 has just been issued by John Lane, New York. 



Henry Holt & Co. will soon bring out a new fern 

 book by Dr. C. E. Waters which will be entitled "Ferns." 

 It will contain numerous illustrations from photographs 

 and considerable matter of a popular nature. 



The first number of The Atlantic Slope Naturalist, a 

 bi-monthly edited by Dr. W. E. Rotzell, Narberth, Pa., has 

 made its appearance. The initial number is a good one 

 and Dr. Rotzell has our best wishes for success. 



Maud Going whose "With the Wildflowers" and "Field 

 Forest and Wayside Flowers" are well known, has just 

 issued a companion volume entitled "With the Trees." 

 This is fortunately not another manual for naming the 

 trees, but belongs in that small and growing list of books 

 about trees. It is for the reader who knows the trees and 

 would add to his knowledge about them. The scope of 

 the book is indicated by chapters devoted to such subjects 

 as "When the sap stirs," "Late blooming trees," "The 

 mellowing year," "In a hillside pasture," "In the high 

 woods," etc. The book has forty illustrations. It is 

 written in clear and attractive style and is crowded with 

 information about trees. It will form very pleasant sum- 

 mer-time reading. (Baker & Taylor, N. Y., $1.00 net.) 



It is probable that gardening in all its phases has re- 

 ceived more attention in Great Britain than in America. 

 Possibly when the gardener aims at mere dollars and 

 cents, we Americans have the best of it ; but in other things 

 we must still import our knowledge as we do many of our 



