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NATURE NOTES 
are described, grouped according to their habitats, and a complete list 
of British birds, with their lengths in inches and an indication of whether 
they are residents, winter or summer visitors, is added. We could have 
wished that here at least scientific names had been added. Twenty- 
four excellent illustrations, from photographs, half of which are by the 
author, add to the attractiveness of the volume. One of these we are 
able, by the courtesy of the publisher, to reproduce here. 
Observation Lessons on Plant Life. A Guide to the Teacher. A Two Years’ 
Course of Nature Study. By Mrs. Beverley Ussher and Dorothy 
Jebb. Illustrated by Blackboard Sketches and by Floral Designs. 
The latter to serve as hints for the treatment of Plant Forms in 
conventional Art. O. Newmann and Co. 
Terminal fruit-bud with three leaf-buds below it. 
Small scar where fruit rotted. 
These rings mark where a side-bud started last 
year’s shoot. 
Wood two years old. 
,, three ,, 
,, four 
Large scar where an apple ripened three 
years ago. 
Scar left by an apple four years ago. 
Scar in fork left by an, apple 
five years ago. Beside it 
lived a leaf-bud which pro- 
duced the entire spur. 
History of an Apple Spur. 
Teachers, especially in rural schools, will find this a most suggestively 
useful book. It aims at combining Nature-Study with the teaching of 
Design. With all due respect for the name of Ruskin their inventor, 
we cannot help thinking the cut-paper modelling a waste of time and 
