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NATURE NOTES 
Future Forest Trees. By A. Harold Unwin. 8| inches x 5J inches, 108 pages. 
T. Fisher Unwin. Price 7s. 6d. net. 
At the present time, when a new interest has been aroused in the subject of 
forestry, the appearance of this little volume is most appropriate, and it should 
prove very useful to those who contemplate planting in this country, as it gives 
concise accounts of the experiments which have been made (in Germany, Austria, 
Great Britain and Switzerland) with American trees, as well as details of their 
characteristics and the treatment which they need. 
Figure 4. — Tree Pipit Feeding Young 
Cuckoo whilst Standing on His 
Shoulders. 
(P'rom “Nature’s Carol Singers,” by the 
courtesy of Messrs. Cassell and Co.) 
Figure 5. I 
(From “ Nature’s Carol Singers,” 
by the courtesy of Messrs. 
Cassell and Co.) 
Plant Life, Studies in Carden and School. By Horace P'. Jones, 5 inches x 73 
^ inches, 260 pages, 320 illustrations. Methuen and Co. Price 2s. 6d. 
The merits of this book are numerous, even if those who are familiar with 
Nature Study in this country will not find anything particularly striking or new 
in the material used or the methods adopted. One may mention the value 
attached to continued observations, and the use of the school garden for Nature 
Study, and to provide a collection of living specimens, which are always avail- 
able, instead of merely making it a convenient out-door workshop for manual 
instruction in Horticulture. Again, there is the frank admission that the open-air 
study of creatures in their native habitats is the best, and the endeavour to do 
