(1) Applied Economic Botany: Based upon Actual Agricultural and Gardening Projects (2) Some Familiar Wild Flowers (3) Australian Wild Flowers (4) A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales

Abstract

(1) THE title of Dr. Cook's book is misleading; from the preface we learn that it is intended as a guide to experimental work in the study of plants, such as should be carried on in any high school, and as a preliminary work to the agricultural studies which are now recognised in many high schools. These objects would be served by a good general practical introduction to the study of plant life, and this, we gather, is what Dr. Cook is attempting. Part i., “Plant Life,” occupies nearly three-fourths of the volume. Beginning with the seed and seedling, the form of the various plant organs and their uses to the plant are described in successive chapters, and exercises for practical work are suggested at the close of each chapter. A short chapter on the anatomy of the angiosperm-ous plant follows, then a brief description of the chemical composition and a chapter on plant food and growth, and finally very short chapters on the Gymnosperms, ecological relations, forestry, plant-breeding, weeds, Pteridophytes, Bryophytes, Thallophytes, and Bacteria.

(1) Applied Economic Botany: Based upon Actual Agricultural and Gardening Projects.

By Dr. M. T. Cook. (Farm Life Text Series.) Pp. xviii + 261. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) Some Familiar Wild Flowers.

Photographed By A. E. Sulman. Pp. ii + 65. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. net.

(3) Australian Wild Flowers.

Photographed By A. E. Sulman. Second Series. Pp. ii + 61.(Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Ltd., n.d.) Price 1s. net.

(4) A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales.

By Florence Sulman. Vol. ii. Pp. xxxi + 249 + 71 plates. (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Ltd., 1914.) Price 6s. net.