5 AUGUST 1905, Page 27

We have received the first part of British Trees, Drawn

and Described by Rex Vicat Cole, R.B.A.: "The Ash Tree" (Hutchin- son and Co., is. net). There are to be thirty parts, published fortnightly, each with a photogravure plate and eight or nine other illustrations. The literary part of the work, in which the practical is not forgotten, has been entrusted to Miss Dorothy Kempe. This sample of the book is most promising, though the ash is not by any means in the first class of our forest trees. It comes late into leaf, fades soon, is an ill neighbour, and now that its use for the hop-garden is passing away, an unremunerative growth.