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made an attempt to reach the place some few years later, but the natives 

 pre sented him. Still more recently an Italian expedition was but little 

 more successful. In 1877 F. W, Burbidge and P. C. M. Veitch spent 

 some days on the mountain and collected specimens of all the remarkable 

 Nepenthes which grow there, and, so far as is known, there only.* These 

 are N, Rajah, N. Edwardsiana, X. villosa, and the unique N. Loicii, with 

 its hard rlagon-shaped pitchers. A natural hybrid between N. villosa and 

 N. Edwardsiana was also found and has been named N. Harryana, it 

 being so far believed to be the only wild hybrid in this genus at present 

 known. Of these wonderful Nepenthes only K. Rajah has at present 

 been introduced alive to Europe, the others still remaining in all their 

 glory, happy and luxuriant in their native wilds. A second journey to 

 Kina Bain was made by Mr. Burbidge in 1878, and the account of his 

 two expeditions is detailed in his " Gardens of the Sun." In 1887-8 

 Kina Balu was successfully explored by Mr. G. Whitehead, a well-known 

 ornithologist, whose work is well known, while Dr. D. G. Haviland 

 examined it botanically as recently as March and April 1902. Borneo is 

 a wonderland, and its great mountain is the focus spot of its interest from 

 nearly every scientific point of view. For Dr. Beccari's work we have 

 nothing but praise, although by no means adopting all his views as to the 

 evolution of men or plants as expressed in its pages. The book is care- 

 fully edited by Dr. Guillemard, who is also a Bornean traveller ; it is well 

 printed, and consists of 424 pages, including index, three maps, and many 

 photographic and other illustrations. The appendix on. the Bornean 

 Forest is mainly botanical, and affords a good idea of the climate and 

 vegetation of the largest island in the Indian Sea. 



" The Business Side of Agriculture." By Arthur G. L. Rogers, M.A., 

 8vo., 163 pp. (Methuen, London.) 2s. Grf. net. 



It may be asked why the Royal Horticultural Society should review 

 in its Journal any books devoted wholly to agriculture. But on con- 

 sideration it will soon be realised how closely the two sister arts are 

 connected in many of their branches, and how often their aims and 

 objects are practically the same. In one respect horticulture may be 

 regarded as the parent of agriculture, as the plants grown and the 

 experience gained in the garden are often transferred to the field, and of 

 course vice versa ; for, as was stated in the second volume of Transactions 

 issued by the Society (1H18), " improvements made in the one may be 

 rendered applicable to the other ; and a tacit co-operation may take place 

 between them, with great advantage to both. Agriculture may occasionally 

 furnish the gardener with new ideas, and suggest contrivances and 

 manipulations that may facilitate and further his labours." 



This interdependence of the two sister arts is admirably exemplified in 

 the excellent little book under review, and many of its pages would apply 

 to horticulture as much as they do to agriculture, and the information 

 contained therein is concise, comprehensive, and thorough. The book- 

 deals mainly with marketing and distribution. Co-operation, organisation, 

 and railway facilities are also all fully treated of, and the various methods 



* These remarkable and practically unknown species are figured in colour, but 

 reduced in size, in St. John's Life in the Forests of the Far East. 



