(1) Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde (2) The Story of Our Trees in Twenty-Four Lessons (3) Forestry in New England(4) Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States (5) Lightning in Relation to Forest Fires

Abstract

(1) THE number of trees and shrubs in cultivation in the open air in this country is astonishing. Numerous new introductions have been made of late years, mainly from China, where the discoveries of Dr. A. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson have opened up an immense region, replete with new and hardy species. No complete treatise on the subject has appeared in English since Loudon published his classic work, “Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,” in 1838, and the abridgment, “Trees and Shrubs,” in 1842. We have had to depend upon German text-books. The best of these, Koehne's “Deutsche Dendrologie,” was published in 1893, and is now out of date.

(1) Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde.

Camillo Karl Schneider. Lieferung 6–12. Pp. v + 1070. Price 34 marks. Register. Pp. vii + 136. Price 5 marks. (Jena: Gustav Fischer.)

(2) The Story of Our Trees in Twenty-Four Lessons.

Margaret M. Gregson. Pp. xii + 160. (Cambridge: University Press, 1912.) Price 2s. 6d. (Cambridge Nature Study Series.)

(3) Forestry in New England.

A Handbook of Eastern Forest Management. By Prof. R. C. Hawley and Prof. A. F. Hawes. Pp. xv + 479. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1912.) Price 15s. net.

(4) Identification of the Economic Woods of the United States.

Including a Discussion of the Structural and Physical Properties of Wood. By Prof. Samuel J. Record. Pp. vii + 117 + 6 plates. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1912.) Price 5s. 6d. net.

(5) Lightning in Relation to Forest Fires.

F. G. Plummer. Pp. 39. (U.S. Dept. Agric., Forest Service. Bulletin III. Washington, 1912.)