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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
t JULY^ 
We presume the author in his first selection has been guided by his own direct 
observation and experience, since there are omissions for which it is otherwise 
difficult to account ,—Clematis montana to wit, one of the finest and freest- 
growing species of its genus, and a really useful and ornamental free-blooming 
plant as a hardy climber. There are other omitted species of this genus quite worth 
recording ; while of Cotoneaster the selection is also meagre. The choice varie¬ 
ties, too, of well-known species are too frequently altogether ignored—we mean. 
Abies nobilis. 
such fine and undoubtedly first-class plants as the Cupressus Lawsoniana erecta 
viriclis^ described at page 91. Hence we cannot report that Mr. Mongredien has. 
exhausted, or even nearly worked out the subject, but putting aside these 
deficiencies, he has, no doubt, set before us a good selection of useful material, 
with which planters would do well to make themselves more familiar. 
The second portion of the book, where we find the admitted species classified 
in various ways, will doubtless be the most practically useful. Here the plants 
are grouped in some thirty or more lists, according to the height attained, to. 
