Kew Gardens Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information: (Wyman and Sons and
others. 2s.)—We have received three volumes of this periodical (1903-5), and are glad to see that it survives or has been resuscitated. Features common to all the numbers are "List of Seeds of Hardy Herbaceous Plants, and of Trees and Shrubs," "Additions to the Library," "New Garden Plants," and "Botanical Departments at Home, in India and the Colonies." It will interest our readers to know that the number of "new garden plants "averages more than four hundred each year. The volume for 1903 contains, we see, a detailed account of the experiments with the blue gum or eucalyptus. It was intro- duced some years ago with a great flourish of trumpets, as certain to banish malaria. Experiment shows that this is a delusion. The Bulletin for last year gives a highly interesting account of what has been done—and not done —towards constructing a complete flora of the British Empire.—Two more books on gardening may be mentioned together, completing, one might say, between them the decoration of a dwelling, filling the garden and covering the walls :—Everyman's Book of Garden Flowers, by John Halsham (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s. net), and A Concise Handbook of Climbers, Twisters, and Wall Shrubs, by H. Purefoy Fitzgerald (Methuen and Co., 3s. 6d. net). Both will be found full of useful information.
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