TREES SAND HOW THEY GROW.
Trees and How they Vrow. By G. Clarke Nuttall, B.Sc., with fifteen autochromes by H. Essenhigh Corke, F.R.P.S., and a hundred and thirty-four photographs by the author. (Cassell and Co. (is. net.)—This popular account of our commonest trees by two well-known collaborators has much to recommend it. Fair botanic accuracy is combined with herbals and mythology. The trees, some twenty-five in number, are arranged in the usual order of their flowering. Why the spruce fir and one or two other familiar trees are omitted we do not know. A successful attempt is made to explain the flowers and the germination of the seeds. Excellent photographs help greatly. The text of each chapter is quite good reading, and contains information on the history, life, and habit of the tree as well as the legends that hover round it. The difficult willows (Saliz) are, of course, lightly passed over, and in the chapter on elms (Uttaus) no attempt is made to grapple with Mr. Claridge Druee's or other botanists' recant work on this neglected genus. The book is a good proof that popular botany can be made readable and interesting without twaddle. The illustrations form an attractive feature.
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