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BOOKS AND CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The third edition of Fruwirth's monumental work on the 

 breeding of agricultural plants is now being brought out by Paul 

 Parey. The first volume, which has just appeared, bearing date 

 of 1909, is devoted chiefly to a- discussion of the principles of 

 breeding; the second, third and fourth volumes will include such 

 special subjects as the breeding of grasses, maize, potatoes, 

 tobacco, and a rather comprehensive list of the most important 

 agricultural plants. The matters discussed in the first volume 

 are of special interest to students of the broad subject from the 

 historical and theoretical standpoint; but no one, it would seem, 

 who is engaged in any way in plant breeding can afford to be 

 without the whole work. 



Doerfleria is the title of a new international journal "for 

 the furtherance of the practical interests of botanists and 

 botany,'' published by I. Doerller at Vienna, which appears to 

 have been undertaken, in part, in response to requests for more 

 frequent publication of the Botanists Directory, or at least of 

 addenda, by which those interested may keep posted as to 

 changes of address of botanists, the appearance of botanical 

 papers and news, including biographical notices, reports of 

 botanical explorations, meetings of academies and societies, con- 

 vocations, notes on acquisitions of botanical institutes and gard- 

 ens, "in short everything that may be of interest to botanists 

 generallv." Much of this is of course already provided for in 

 existing publications, but the new journal will no doubt serve a 

 highly useful purpose as a medium of communication, especially 

 if the hope of the editor to make its circulation world-wide is 

 realized. The journal is published monthly, and the subscrip- 

 tion price is twelve crowns. 



The fifth and last volume of Trees, by the late H. Marshall 

 Ward, has just appeared from the press of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons, New York, and is listed at one dollar and fifty cents. This 

 number especially will appeal to lovers of trees as they grow 

 in nature and have come to be associated with man, since it con- 



