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water." ''Flowers that have a milky juice such as Oriental and 

 other Poppies " &c., want special care. Hardwooded subjects should 

 have the cut end of the flower stem slit up, so as to enable them to 

 take up the water more readily. Plenty of advice of this description is 

 set forth in detail and those who read the directions given, cannot 

 fail to benefit immensely by so doing. 



Other chapters on " Conservatories," " The Making of Pot-Pourri," 

 ''Plants for poor Soils," "Wild Ferns." "The Kitchen Garden," 

 *' Things Worth Doing, ' ' and several others are equally interesting 

 and most profitable to the reader, and we cannot conceive a more 

 welcome gift to an}' friends who love their garden and home and want 

 to make the most of them. 



Studies of Trees and Flowers." By M. Wrigley. ^Yith Descrip- 

 tions' by Annie Lorrain Smith, F.L.S. 8vo., 129 pp. (Methuen, 

 London, 1911.) 15s. net. 



This is a sumptuous work, the illustrations being excellently repro- 

 duced, while the descriptions of each tree, shrub or flower are con- 

 cise and to the point — just what is recpired for the purpose of identifi- 

 cation. 



In all one hundred and twenty-nine illustrations, to each of which 

 a page is devoted, with an equal amount of letterpress, are included in 

 . the book. 



The price is perhaps prohibitive to the ordinary student of flowers, 

 . but the beautifully executed plates, clear type, and tone of the paper 

 , will all recommend the work to those who are interested, as the writer 

 .. says, " in the beautiful and varied treasures of the vegetable kingdom 

 I j that grow wild or with easy cultivation in our British Islands." 



" Vocabulaire Forestier : Francais — Allemand — Anglais." Par 

 .3 J. Gerschel. Eevu par W. E. Fisher. Cinquieme edition con- 

 4 siderablement augmentee. 8vo., 192 pp. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 

 I 1911.) 5s. net. 



This is the fifth edition of a work useful to e^'eryone who is inter- 

 ested in the science of forestry, and of particular value to the English 

 irl< student, as it explains many terms that are employed abroad, where 

 i'the tending of woodlands receives more attention, in a commercial way 

 at least, than is the case at home. This handy pocket-book, which 

 .V extends to some two hundred pages, gives the English, French, and 

 ;;p, German versions of the various terms used in connexion with the 

 '; management of woodlands or forestry in its widest sense, and the fact 

 ,-. 3f its having gone into a fifth edition is sufficient proof of its popularity. 

 G!:,As before said, it is of special value to the British student who con- 

 vf' templates studying foreign methods of timber culture, and to him we 

 - ■ vould recommend it for its portable size and the vast amount of infor- 

 mation it contains. 



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