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"Ay H C. Knapp-Fisher. Gollancs, It would be a pleasure to recommend this book because it attempts task Which is worth attempt-boring and everyone cannot be ex- ing.
The sorely tried schoolmaster pected to share in one's own pat of to-day would surely welcome a Eular mania, I must, therefore, curb handbook of this kind. Ability. select the essentials and avoid the my. impulse to, reesmmend Captain Kingdon, Ward's "Romance of Plant irrelevant and yet preserve Hunting" to all and sundry. It has interest of the young reader must mark such a handbook. The author been a life-long ambition of mino writes well and covers such a wide! to be a plant hunter, therefore to field. that meticulous insistence on me personally every page of the book accuracy would be unfair. At tho} was a joy;-but looking at the matter Sanely oval impartially 1realiae ie s2™@ time, be has swouid be" foolish to pretend that st] £0, f0" astray, would stir up much enthusiasm, in the minds of those who are neither Fegarding the general tity of His] otherwise interesting presentation. interested in gardens or botany.
In the chapter on China he gives True, the author has very charm-good prominence to Shanghai as ing manner of side-tracking, and a: the fifth largest city in the world, iis particular expeditions took place but he evidently jg confused by the} fon the borders of Szechuen, Yun-title of the Chinese Municipality, oan and Tibet, he casts some very for he, seems to. imi tthe Interesting sidelights on the man-term "Greater Shanghai" includes ners and modes of the inhabitant the International 'Settlement and with amusing anecdotes of the the French Concession and talks of Tamas and their "subjects, When a joint Chinese and. foreign (the all is said and done, though, fciual' word. forthe latter _is ook remains primarily £0 ite") administration. He might plant lovers. have profited by a reference to Certainly the life of a plant Peetham Report, and if, too, he had hunter is tot all couleur de ros studied the Lytton Report, whic! there is snow and hail, wind and has come within his, cognisance, be rain storms to contend with, discom. would have been able to give a Clearer description of the problem forts by the score, and for the most of Manchuria, pare dlety, Dug: riden inns as rest Ing places, and. mos In hig discussion of India he is] food; and yet I thini most, people even more sadly misinformed, and] with any zest for adventure will maintain with me that the yet in dealing with that county he offices of Whitehall to put him Zould surely have invoked the ood easily outweigh the ce yourself wading knee-deep in -mea-Fight. He might, for instance, dows of Nomocharis Farren: have learned that' New Delhi has been finished; that Burma has not] fre rose pink outside flow. with, heath but inside they though proposals to that end have outside yet been separated from India, purple. Bach I which Trt been made; that there, are, there-inches in height, bears one, two fore, now ten, Governor's Provinces more. of thee edding fower and' not eighty and that each is carl Province has a Legislature as fas its own Government, taking, Leontess I felt distinctly aggriev geod deal of burden off the should. ed-after reading this description of the Central Government and why such a flower had the Central Legislature. He makes) forth in all the reference to the railway and ferigation developments of India tempted to, grow it my-and why I haa! golf, but learnt in a later chapter and rather paints a, picture, of a country chicly notable for supply-that only one variety of the Nomoth 1s been ing Bagland "with tea, jute, and ily contributing to the coffers Of British merchants. He talks of the stately mansions of the Indian hod Civil Servants in. Deni, Tat the facts. be a little gcormtat, admitting their apt to!
Ji the "Com: "Wen 2 bean rity a slyde Pasi and Kew Gavit not considering them as necessary in one's own garden. Bul Service, having read what the, ties can look like, T feel 1 must all graded according to the official Tank of the occupant, Tt is an ex: rush home and start my garden ggeration to say that the "A"! entirely fo them, "Here again, giver over a1 close. houses are stately, mansions. is the Shanghai they might be descri description: 4 aod taipans' onses. OF the six allotted to the members of the Viceroy's Cabinet, three ate oc-Seen, geet at] Viegas, Cabinet
carpets' of queer design crtawen sad ofthe Indian, "Cli! sere cone les and gle Saran. The special power posses and ample one by a member of the roy of otoing We realise that Shanghai very far ery from Szechuen, Yunnan or Tibet, but even so, with such scores of primulas found and deseribed by the author, it mus surely be possible to grow more than the two or three varlet those mostly of the dullest in this town. Perhaps the book will inspire renders to venture on less seeds in the future. unostentatious work that, goes between the collectors and the nur. setymen at home, People much too apt to take new specimens granted, with no thought of the toil and work entailed in their produetion. However, let us desist before losing control "and being carried away further aforementioned by the
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