THERE has been little attempt at selection in this book, with the result that a great deal of material has been brought together, some of which the beginner will scarcely be able to use. Nevertheless ...

Gardeners who have resolved this year to delve deeper into how horticulturists and botanists identify and group plants may be interested in a book that is something of a tutorial in classification ...

IT is a difficult task, nowadays, to write a text-book of botany, because the subject has become so large as to render it impossible to treat even the more important sections of it within reasonable ...