Beautiful and Rare Trees and Plants. By the Earl Annesley.
(G. Newnes. 42s. net.)-Lord Annesley gives us in this volume photographs of excellent quality, representing some seventy trees and shrubs which are to be seen in the garden of Castlewellan. He adds particulars of country of origin and general appearance_ The details as to origin are peculiarly interesting. We owe a great part of these beautiful additions to our horticulture to Japan. That country contributes about twenty. From North America, chiefly California, come fifteen; from South America five ; from Australasia twelve, almost all being natives of New Zealand. The remainder have scattered places of origin, some being the result of horticultural ingenuity. The most remarkable of the plants described, though not the most desirable, is Rhus Toxicodendron, or poison-ivy, a very dangerous occupant of any spot to which general access may be had.
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