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(1) IN this attractive little handbook is a systematically arranged account of a number of the more interesting flowering plants which are cultivated in the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden, which should be of service to students in the Botany School of the University. The sequence is the familiar modern German one, and under each family is a short description of some of the genera and species which are regarded as specially worthy of mention. The plates, which are good full-page photographic reproductions, add to the value and attractiveness of the book. A clear plan of the garden indicating the larger plants with page-references to the trees, and an index of the genera and species mentioned in the book, enables the student tor make full use of it. In deference to the oriental scholars who have loved and befriended the garden, the author has included the eastern names of some of the plants, with quotations illustrating the use of these names. A historical note gives the date of the foundation of the Cambridge Garden as 1762, and in 1831 the removal to the present site was authorised.
(1) Guide to the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge.
By H. Gilbert-Carter. Pp. xvi + 117 + 24 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922.) 3s. 6d. net.
(2) An Alpine A B C and List of Easy Rock Plants.
Arranged by A. Methuen. Pp. x + 35. (London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1922.) 1s. 6d. net.
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(1) Guide to the University Botanic Garden, Cambridge (2) An Alpine A B C and List of Easy Rock Plants. Nature 111, 216 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111216b0
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