Conifers¹

Abstract

THIS is a bulky volume of nearly 600 pages, and contains a vast amount of information. If the Royal Horticultural Society had published nothing but this since 1891 they would have amply satisfied those who are interested in conifers, and have keenly felt the want of such a book of reference as the one now under notice. Some of the papers published in the report could have been omitted without loss, but on the whole the editors have done their work well. In the preface they say, in sending out this memorial of the Conifer Conference, 1891, “we would draw attention to the fact that it contains far more than a mere verbal report of the conference, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.R. S., and Prof. Carl Hansen, of Copenhagen, having promised at the time to recast their notes more fully. This they have done most kindly, and with infinite labour and research, but not without some little expenditure of time, the final sheets of MS. having only come into our hands in July, and the corrections extending up to September 29.