202 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



"Flora of Hampshire." By Frederick Townsend, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.R.H.S. New edition. 8vo.,658 pp. (Lovell Reeve, London.) 21s.net. 



|The first edition of this excellent work was published in 1882, and 

 now the patient and clever author has completed a second edition in 

 which the material in the original work has been revised, and the vast 

 amount which has been accumulated since the first edition was published 

 added, so that the present work is as complete as possible, and consequently 

 it will be invaluable to the student of British botany. 



The book is excellently well arranged as a work of reference, a map of 

 the county of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, divided into numbered 

 sections, being given, and corresponding numbers appended to each record 

 to facilitate location of the species on the map. 



The enumeration of the genera and species, together with the records 

 of the localities in which each has been found, and notes respecting them 

 where necessary, takes up Part I. of the work and occupies five hundred 

 and thirty-six pages. 



Part II. gives a Summary of Orders, number of genera in each order, 

 &c. ; Summary of Geographical Distribution of Species ; Notes on the 

 Districts, with lists of the rarer plants in each district ; Comparison of 

 the Hampshire Flora with some other districts, and an Appendix in which 

 some species of special interest are noted and a list of popular names 

 given. There are also a very complete index and a coloured plate of Ery- 

 thrcea capitata spliceroccphala Townsend, and E. Centaurium capitata. 



" The New Forest." By H. G. Hutchinson. With fifty illustrations 

 (reproductions of water-colours) by W. Tyndale and Miss Kemp-Welch. 

 8vo., 300 pp. (Methuen, London.) 21s. net. 



The following are the subjects treated : Forest Laws, Courts and 

 History of the New Forest, The Vert and Venison, The Northern Postern, 

 Lyndhurst, Sec. — Beaulieu and the south-eastern angle, Ecclesiastical 

 Establishments, New Forest Folk, Gipsies, Fauna and Flora, Hunting, 

 Sec, Index. Those who are familiar with the New Forest will find this a 

 pleasant and instructive book, while the coloured drawings are very good 

 and are a valuable addition to the work. 



" Garden Pests." By Phoebe Allen. 8vo., 229 pp. (Wells Gardner, 

 Darton, & Co., London.) 3s. 6c7. 



The raiscm (Vet re of this book is not very apparent. The authoress, 

 in her preface, says that " it has been written in the hope that it may not 

 merely awaken interest among amateur gardeners in the characteristics 

 and nature of some well-known enemies of the vegetable kingdom, but may 

 also convey sufficient information to help the plant-lover to distinguish 

 between friend and foe." How far, however, these hopes will be realised 

 one cannot tell, for it is difficult to imagine to whom the style of the book 

 would appeal, unless it is to the young, and to them a great portion of it 

 would not be of any interest. The authoress's idea in writing the book 

 was to give a certain amount of information about various insect pests 

 in what she no doubt considered an amusing manner, so that the dull 



