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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
azine is practically defunct. Further issues will be in the 
form of separates. The editor was a])parently discouraged 
too easily. A pressure of business and a list of delinquent 
subscribers are ever with the editor and add spice to his 
existence. As for co-operation, the editor must co-operate 
with himseU, first, last, and all the time, winter and sum- 
mer, day and ni-ht. Thus only, can the small publicaticm 
life,^let him^tart a scientih/ma-azine. 
Califi^rnia boasts that her trees are larger, taller and 
<;lder than any others on this planet. In variety, also they 
area. Taking the cone-bearers as an illustration, there 
are nearly fifty difterent species and the broad-leaved trees 
are as varied. Another curious feature is the absence of 
such well-known eastern trees as the magnolia, elm, bass- 
wood, beech, hickorj-. eiiestnut, persimmon and mul- 
berry, while the oaks, maj^les. birches and others that 
occur, are different trom those found on the opposite 
side of the -great divide". Years ago Dr. .Vll)crt Kellogg 
made a large number of drawings of the trees and shrubs 
with the idea of making a manual of the trees. l>ut tins 
u-as never completed. The work was destined not to he 
lust to sci.r.ce. howexer. tor Miss. Alice Eastwood has 
-ivcn them titling setting in her '"Hand-book of the Trees 
ofCalif-.rtua ' i>si;e.lin- the California .Academv of Science. 
The l)ook contains nearly a hundred pages of te.xt in which 
the trct;> are carefully described and about sixty plates 
th;vt u-. ll diustrace the subject in hand. There are three 
Kevs to tiic spccus. In a series of footnotes, the trees of 
Wj^hmgton. Oregon and Arizona are ad<ied so that the 
\K>ok IS practically a hatui-book to the tree:, of western 
Americ.i and as such will be welcomed by all students ot 
