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of grouping cut flowers artistically, as opposed to the prevalent bunching 

 methods, with numerous descriptive examples. — C. T. D. 



Forest Lands, A Working" Plan for, near Pine Bluff, 

 Arkansas. By Frederick E. Olmsted (U.S.A. Dep. Agr. (Bur. 

 Forestry) Bull. 82).— This may best be described as a systematic plan 

 for lumbering, giving in a precise and practical way the yield of timber 

 that may be expected from a given area and the conditions governing 

 the transport and marketing of the timber when felled. The work is 

 divided into two parts — the Timber Lands and Forest Management — with 

 a number of beautifully executed illustrations and working plans for the 

 forest land. It is published under the direction of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture — an example that might well be followed by 

 our Board of Agriculture at home, where forest literature and evidence 

 given as to planting up some of the waste lands of the British Isles 

 receive but scant attention. 



That great good will be brought about by a systematic plan of working 

 the forest lands of any country goes without saying, irregular and too 

 heavy cuttings being thus prevented, while an annual inspection by 

 a reliable Government official will greatly tend to minimise the waste in 

 felling which has generally been associated with lumbering in the past. 



A. D. W. 



Fritillaria askabadensis. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7850). — Nat. ord. Liiiaccce, tribe Tulipece. Native of Central Asia. 

 Perianth 1 inch long, pale yellow-green. — G. H. 



Fritillarias and their Culture. By G. B. Mallett (Garden, No. 

 1,590, p. 305 ; 10/5/1902). — The first article on these quaint and interest- 

 ing plants, with a life-sized illustration of F. aurea, and one of a colony 

 of the Meadow Fritillary (F. Meleagris), and with descriptions of the 

 Crown Imperials and F. libanotica and its allies. The genus contains 

 about sixty species, of which, perhaps, twenty-five are sufficiently orna- 

 mental to be worthy of a place in most gardens, whilst quite twenty of 

 these are first-class garden plants, bright and interesting to a marked 

 degree. Their cultivation is, in the main, quite an easy matter ; the 

 chief difficulties centre around the resting period, for the majority of these 

 plants hail from drier countries than our own, and the chief difficulty the 

 cultivator has to face is that of keeping the bulbs sound and plump, yet 

 dry, in early autumn, or they will start to grow early in the winter and 

 perish in the attempt. — F. T. C. 



Frost Blisters on Leaves. By Paul Sorauer (Zeit. f. Pflanz. xii. 

 1902, pp. 44-47 ; 1 plate). — Spots on the leaves of Apple and Cherry are 

 traced to the action of slight spring frost on the young leaves. The epi- 

 dermis is -so affected when the leaves expand that it separates from the 

 inner tissue and forms hollow blisters, in which the mesophyll cells are 

 considerably elongated. — W. G. S. 



Fruit Garden, The Home. By L. C. Corbett (U.S.A. Dep. Agr. 

 Farm. Bull. 154, illustrated). — Is described as eminently desirable as a 



