The Country Press (19 Ball Street, Kensington) publishes a series
of interesting picture postcards of British Grasses. Twenty- five species are represented with magnified fructification, habitats, and time of flowering. We are glad to see this most useful aid to the habit of observation, which all the young should be encouraged to form. The writer of this notice is inclined to criticise the description of the habitat of couch-grass (Triticum repens). "Waste places and fields," we find ; but we should say "Gardens, orchards, plantations, and every place where it is not wanted." —We may also notice another set of picture postcards, not directly didactic, and not easily to be classed as either literature or art, yet worth looking at. These are the Furness Rai/way Picture Postcards (F. R. Railway Stations, dtc.) Two series of six, 3d. each, are to hand: "Furness Abbey and Windermere" and "Coniston, Esthwaite, and Windermere."
Previous page
