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t-nt-e has appeared with the new nomenclature and this 
will now lose a large part of its usefulness until other 
■editions in accord with the rulings can be produced. 
BOOKS AND WRITERS, 
It would be difficult to find a book on the work of 
plants in which is packed more information than is to 
found in Osterhout's ''Experiments with Plants." To 
those who are not already familiar with the way in which 
|)lants secure and store their food, with their methods of 
respiration and digestion, with their reaction to various 
stimuli— in short with all the phenomena of the growth 
and behavior of plants, this little book ought to prove 
the most absorbing literature; while to the teacher of 
botan3- the great variety of experiments for illustrating 
or observing such phen'>mena will appeal very strongly. 
We note with pleasure that the author has aimed at 
makiuif the exijerimcnts with the simplest apparatus 
possible ard T.carlv i.ll of them c<.uld be performed with 
the iu!].lL'mcut> ar.ii uLersils of an ordinarv kitchen. One 
n(^rcs n:anv mgc-m-^iis contrivances among the two 
hur.d.ed ar.d htty illustrations. ^ The text is clearly writ- 
able nature besides. (New Yt)rk, The MacMlllan Co., 
1905, $1.40.) 
After all the books dealing with our wiUltlowers from 
to make a new book on the suiiject without tra\ ersing 
irround alreadv grme over, but this has l>een done by 
\laude Gridley Peterson in her "How to Know Wild 
Fruits." Heretofore the point of attack in identifying 
plants has been the tiower and the fruit has received^ but 
scarce and every lane and hedge-row is laden with fruits 
of all sizes and colors, the rambler is likely to sigh for a 
