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IT was the intention of the author to complete this work in six volumes, but unhappily he was not spared to see the scheme accomplished. However, three excellent volumes, full of useful and interesting information, dealing respectively with buds, leaves, and flowers, had been published, and the author left behind sufficient manuscript for two other volumes. Prof. Groom undertook the task to see these two volumes through the press. A perusal of the present volume shows that the manuscript could not have fallen into better hands. The skill with which he has edited this part leaves nothing to be desired. Like its predecessors, vol. iv. is divided into two sections—a general and a special. The first section contains seven chapters. The first chapter gives an idea of what fruit is, its function and parts. In the second chapter is given a classification of fruits, and the remaining chapters of this section deal with the fruits of woody plants, each under its own natural order. In section ii. we have a tabular classification of trees and shrubs according to their fruits and seeds.
Trees: a Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory. Vol. iv. Fruits.
By the late Prof. H. Marshall Ward. Pp. iv+161. (Cambridge: University Press, 1908.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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Trees: a Handbook of Forest-Botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory Vol iv. Fruits. Nature 80, 126 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080126a0
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