Abstract
THIS instalment of M. de Kerville's careful monograph contains twenty views of trees from photographs by the author, accompanied by detailed descriptions and historical notes. The work is well and conscientiously done, whilst the illustrations are well selected and admirably reproduced in collotype. The trees here shown include ten oaks, six yews, two beeches, a lime and a poplar. As the photographs of the deciduous trees have been taken in very early spring, before the opening of the buds, their ramification and general architecture are shown to the greatest advantage. With this volume, à propos of a notable oak-tree growing at Isigny-le-Buat, the author includes an interesting account of recorded cases of mistletoe upon oaks in Normandy. He is able to produce evidence in support of some twenty-seven recorded instances. The book will appeal to all tree-lovers; may it stimulate some to similar studies. We remember to have seen something of the kind for Northumberland nearly thirty years ago in the Transactions of the Tyne-side Naturalists' Field Club.
Les Vieux Arbres de La Normandie.
By Henri Gadeau de Kerville. Fasc. iv. Pp. 219 + 352. (Paris: J. B. Baillière et fils, 1899.)
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Les Vieux Arbres de La Normandie . Nature 62, 7 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062007a0
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