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THB OARDENINQ WORLD. 
December 14, 1907. 
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Last week we said something about “A 
First Course in Practical Botany.” On 
this occasion we deal with “Elementary 
Botany,” a book which runs to 128 pp., 
and has been written by a lady, Miss M. 
A. Liversidge, Assistant Mistress at the 
Girls’ High School, Gloucester. The 
book is as comprehensive as the space will 
admit, but beginners will be pleased and 
helped with the large number of well- 
executed drawings representing various 
parts of a plant and special forms of 
plants, so that the beginner can get an 
idea of what he is reading about. The 
book is divided into four parts, namely, 
three parts dealing with morphology and 
physiology and the fourth part with classi¬ 
fication. The first, of course, deals with 
form or shapes of plants and their several 
parts. 
The young child is, no doubt, often 
puzzled by what results from sowing seeds 
of Peas, Beans or other plants, especially 
when the structure of such seeds is al¬ 
together unknown to them. Here 
several fairly common types are illus¬ 
trated with drawings, and the several 
parts receive their proper names used in 
botany. These names, puzzling as 
they seem to the beginner, are of very 
great importance to those who intend to 
study the subject of flowers, root and 
branch, and even to those who merely 
wish to pass an examination. Such tech¬ 
nical terms save a great deal of unneces¬ 
sary and roundabout description. Then 
come the various forms of roots, such as 
fibrous, tuberous, tap-root, bulbs, corms, 
tubers, rhizomes, etc., the forms of leaves 
and the names attached to each different 
shape ; the anthers, seed vessels, and their 
various parts are all illustrated with draw¬ 
ings. Then comes the inflorescence or 
form of the arrangement of the flowers on 
the plant. 
Part II. of the book gives magnified 
drawings of the internal structure of stems 
and roots. Part III. deals with the phy¬ 
siology of plants, and this long word, re¬ 
duced to its simplest form, would be what 
plants do and. how they do it. Not the 
least useful are the chapters dealing with 
the classification of flowering plants. Al¬ 
though this received much attention in by¬ 
gone days, it had come to be neglected on 
account of the time spent over morpho¬ 
logy and physiology, whereas a know¬ 
ledge of the classification of plants en¬ 
ables one to find out the names of the 
plants they meet with for themselves. 
The book is obtainable from Messrs. 
Blackie and Son, Ltd., 50, Old Bailey, 
London, price is. 6d. 
An Uncommon Climber 
(Mutisia decurrens). 
Mutisia decurrens. 
\Maclaren and Sons. 
From various parts of South America 
come a series of climbing plants, but 
the most interesting ones are those which 
come from the Chilian Andes, because 
they are more nearly hardy in our climate 
than those which come from tropical 
countries. The flower which we represent 
was bloomed at Exeter in the open air, 
and was given us by Messrs. R. Veitch 
and Son, Exeter. We have seen it flower¬ 
ing on a wall in the suburbs of London, 
so that it is very nearly hardy, and might 
be employed by those who have large 
cool conservatories to furnish with clim¬ 
bers. 
These flower heads consist of twelve to 
twenty rich, deep orange rays, and mea¬ 
sure 4 in. to 6 in. across. We might, 
therefore, describe it as like a giant Bar¬ 
berton Daisy, except that the habit of the 
plant and the shape of the leaves are al¬ 
together different. The stems are rather 
slender, and grow 10 ft. to 12 ft. in height, 
and therefore require support. The 
leaves are lance-shaped and furnished 
with a tendril at the end, much in the 
same way as a Pea, but, of course, thev 
are undivided. The illustration will show 
the remarkably elongated mass of bracts 
beneath the flower head, giving it alto¬ 
gether an uncommon appearance. Those 
who would wish to grow the plant, there¬ 
fore, should plant it against a wall in a 
warm aspect or else plant it out in a cool 
greenhouse or conservatory. In these 
latter places a slightly shaded position 
would be better than full sunshine. 
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Correction. 
By some unfortunate mistake or other 
it was stated in our issue for December 7, 
p. vi., that Mr. E. Gaye, Oulton Broad 
Nurseries, Lowestoft, had 100 customers 
on his books, whereas it should have been 
100,000. Readers please observe the cor¬ 
rection. 
