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JOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



British Trees, including the Finer Shrubs for Garden and Wood- 

 land." By the late Eev. 0. A. Johns, B.A., F.L.S. Edited by 

 E. T. Cook and W. Dallimore. With 56 full-page plates (24 coloured) 

 and 41 text illustrations. 8vo., 285 pp. (Eoutledge, London, 1911.) ''^ 

 7s. 6^^. net. 



This is an interesting book, the history, folk-lore, and quotations 

 from our principal authors on the subject having been pieced together 

 in the story of each tree and shrub. From a purely practical point of 

 view it is not perhaps intended to be useful, though the rate of growth 

 of some of the trees, quality of timber, and other points of interest to 

 the owner of woodlands will be welcome. 



We hardly agree with the author when he says that the Willow does 

 not rank high as a picturesque tree, nor that the wood of the Scots 

 and Corsican Pine are similar in quality. Our own experience, from 

 trees grown all over the country, is that the grain of the wood of 

 Pinus Laricio is much coarser than that of the Scots Pine. 



The Douglas Fir for economic planting is overrated, for in this 

 country it is mainly suitable for rich deep valleys like the cafions ol 

 its native country. 



There is much useful information given about the Oak, and the 

 quotations from Gilpin, Evelyn, Loudon, and others regarding the 

 tree are of value as being accessible under one heading. 



The work, which extends to nearly three hundred pages, is illus- 

 trated by about one hundred plates, the uncoloured ones especially 

 being remarkably true to nature and well reproduced. 



" Some English Gardens." After drawings by George S. Elgood, 

 E.I. With Notes by Gertrude Jekyil. New Edition. 4to., 131 pp. 

 (Longmans, London, New York, and Bombay, 1910.) £2 2s. net. 



In size and get-up generally " Some English Gardens " is uniform 

 with another work from the same publisher entitled " Italian 

 Gardens." In both cases Mr. George S. Elgood is the artist from 

 whose water-colour drawings the reproductions are made, and in 

 the majority of cases they may be considered to be as satisfactory aS it«iir 

 modern colour-process work can be expected to make them. These 

 illustrations are all full-paged and liors texte, and inclusive of the 

 frontispiece number fifty in all. They are certainly (tasteful an'G 

 attractive little bits of garden pictorial art, and it would be somewha^arein 

 of an invidious task to decide which are the best, for in tliese matters 

 so nuich must necessarily depend upon individual taste 



The volume is a credit to printer, author, and publisher alike. It 

 is neatly bound in dark-blue cloth and gilt lettered. Tlie typographica. 

 work is executed in excellent style, and the book-lover will warmlj finj 

 welcome the very liberal nrargin that suirounds the text 



We turii over the leaves with feelings of undisguised pleasure aJ 

 we gaze upon the numerous attractive plates that embellish the work 

 While fully n])pr(X'iating some of the calmer, cooler-looking views where 

 clipped t-reos, hedges and other greeucry appear, such as the Terrace, 



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