MATURE ROTES 
station, however, is Hainault Forest and the romantically-named Havering-atte- 
Bower, fragrant wiih the traditions of England’s gentlest and most saintly king. 
In this secluded spot it is fitting that the old-world symbol of order — the stocks — 
should be preserved, and we are indebted to the Association for permission to 
reproduce their illustration of them. 
Famihar Swiss Flowers. Figured and described by F. E. Hulme. With too 
Coloured Plates. "]\ x 5^ in. Pp. 224. Cassell and Co. Price 7s. 6d. 
net. 
“There are in Switzerland some 2,000 species of flowering plants, and about 
half of these are Alpine.” Many of these latter are remarkable for their large 
and brilliantly-coloured blossoms, and this has led not only to the rage for the 
cultivation of alpines, but also to the preparation of several popular books, giving 
coloured plates of these floral beauties. Mr. Ilulme’s drawing is always good 
and, doubtless, his colouring also, whilst this last has suffered less in the process 
of reproduction than in some older books of the same class. By including two 
or more species on most of his plates, the artist has represented some 200 
species, and — naturally, perhaps — he only deals with “ conspicuosities ” ; but 
It is a pity that species not common to Great Britain were not selected in 
preference to those which are so. The fact that these species are common to 
the two floras is not always even mentioned in the somewhat meagre “ descrip- 
tions.” Indexes are given of so-called “popular” names, English and local — 
many of which are mere book coinages — of botanical names, and of the last 
in botanical sequence. 
Mosses and Liverworts. An Introduction to their Study, with Hints as to their 
Collection and Preservation. By T. H. Russell. With Illustrations from 
Original Microscopical Drawings. 8f x 5§ in. Pp. 200. Sampson Low', 
Marston and Co. Price 4s. 6d. net. 
A short time ago we reported that Mr. Russell had delivered an interesting 
lecture on the subject of mosses and liverworts before our Birmingham Branch, 
and now he has laid a wider public under an obligation by giving us this 
excellently got-up introductory manual. It is, as the author says, more 
especially meant for “the beginner and the uninitiated”; English names 
and terms are therefore given, though a full glossary is added. No attempt 
at a synopsis of British species is made, as this is already available in excellent 
recent and inexpensive works, which are described in a very complete biblio- 
graphical chapter. Colour is of little consequence in the identification of these 
plants; so, with the luxury of a coloured frontispiece, we are given ten 
uncoloured plates of general anatomy. An eminently practical chapter on 
collecting and preserving completes the work. 
The Open Air. By Richard Jefferies. With Illustrations by Ruth Dolman. 
7 f X in. Pp. 234. Chatto and Windus. Price 5s. net. 
Everything that Jefferies wrote is, of course, well worth reading, but in these 
later papers we miss some of the spontaneity of his earlier Wiltshire work. Miss 
Dolman’s illustrations seem to us too monotonously orange in tone, but the 
charming end-papers make this worthy edition a joy. It may, perhaps, however, 
be greedy, but why will publishers give us the same end-paper at each end of 
a volume ? 
Wee Tim'rous Beasties. By Douglas English. Third Edition. With too 
Illustrations from his Photographs. 8x5! in. Pp. 223. Cassell and Co. 
Price 5s. net. 
We are not surprised that Mr. English’s delightful and delightfully-illustrated 
volume, first published in 1903, has reached a third edition. 
One and All Gardening, 1908. Edited by E. O. Greening. Agricultural and 
Hoiticultural Association. Price 2d. 
This thirteenth issue of this popular annual is as full, as varied, and as 
copiously illustrated as any of its predecessors. From an article on “Garden 
Teaching in Schools,” by Mr. II. J. Wright, it appears that forty-two County 
