1908] ем England Botanical Club, Annual Meeting 217 
A BULLETIN ON SHADE TREES, a publication in which the Massa- 
chusetts Forestry Association and the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion have co-operated, has been recently issued and will meet a long 
felt want. Every one loves trees and much time and money are spent 
in planting and caring for them. The results are not infrequently 
disappointing on account of injudicious selection, wrong methods in 
setting, or improper or insufficient care. This bulletin gives the sub- 
stance of the laws pertaining to shade trees and tree wardens, and 
discusses the duties of the latter. The selection of varieties suited to 
different localities is considered. Statistics showing the rate of growth 
of different trees, together with directions for setting, transplanting, 
and pruning, are given. Methods of preventing or repairing damages 
to trees receive attention, and such topics as chaining and bolting, 
treating decayed cavities, filling, etc., are fully discussed. Injuries 
to trees due to leaky gas mains, contact with electric wires, and other 
electrical injuries are considered and the best methods of prevention 
described. ‘The concluding section of the bulletin gives descriptions 
of the more serious insect enemies and explicit directions for destroy- 
ing them or preventing their injuries. This bulletin will be sent to 
members of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, to tree wardens 
in all parts of the state, and to public librarians. Other persons 
desiring copies should write to the Massachusetts Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, Amherst, Mass. 
New ENGLAND Botanica CLUB, ANNUAL MEETING.— At the 
annual meeting of the New England Botanical Club held at 3 Joy 
Street, Boston, on the evening of December 4th, 1908, the Phaenogamic 
Curator reported the gift to the Club by Miss Kate Furbish of Bruns- 
wick, Maine, of her extensive herbarium of Maine plants. The 
forming of this collection has been one of Miss Furbish’s chief interests 
for the past forty years. It 15, therefore, especially valuable as the 
pioneer collection of flowering plants and ferns from many sections 
of Maine which have not been visited by other botanists. Altogether 
the floras of more than two hundred towns and villages are represented; 
and when the material has been worked over it is expected that fully 
10,000 specimens will be added to the organized collections of the 
Club, and that many of the species will be additions to the recorded 
flora of Maine. 
