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THIS is an alphabetical list of a large number of ordinary garden plants, together with brief indications of height, colour of flowers, native country, natural order, season of flowering, mode of propagation, and purpose for which they may be used in the garden. Within its rather restricted limitations the book seems carefully compiled, and the proofs have evidently been read with attention, for abundant as are the opportunities for falling into error, misprints are hardly to be found. The word “family” is, however, used in many cases where “genus “should be employed; thus the Galegas are styled a hardy family. Of course, Galega is a genus of the family Leguminosæ, An even more misleading statement is that in which Narcissus Barrii is spoken of as “a family of star-narcissus,” whatever that may be.
A Concise Handbook of Garden Flowers.
By H. M. Batson. Pp. vii + 256. (London: Methuen and Co., 1903.) Price 3s. 6d.
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A Concise Handbook of Garden Flowers . Nature 68, 571 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068571b0
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