MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 113 
NOTES. 
The roses, notwithstanding the unusually hot and dry 
summer, are continuing to bloom almost as prolifically and ~ 
beautifully as in the earlier season. 
The shrubbery and trees transplanted this spring have 
suffered from the long-continued drought and, while some 
of each have died, the percentage of loss will. be low. It has 
been possible to save so large a per cent, however, only by 
persistent and thorough attention to watering. At times it 
became necessary to continue the watering at night. 
The private herbarium of the late Henry Eggert, which 
was purchased by the Missouri Botanical Garden and of 
which up to the present year 26,704 specimens have been 
incorporated in the general collection, is now fully organized 
and the duplicate material, numbering about 10,000 speci- 
mens, is ready for exchange with the Garden’s correspond-_ 
ents. 
In the July issue of the Butierin the use of copper sul- 
phate in ridding ponds of scum was recommended. Since 
that time it has become necessary to treat several ponds in 
the Garden. This has been done by adding about one part 
of copper sulphate to two million parts of water. The scum 
was quickly Filled, but none of the other plants growing in 
the ponds suffered the least injury. 
The need for more space in the herbarium has been met 
temporarily by the installation, during the past month, of a 
few new cases which give an additional capacity for approxi- 
mately 40,000 mounted specimens. The work has involved 
a complete rearrangement of more than one-half of the entire 
herbarium, with the result, however, of rendering it pos- 
sible to incorporate the large amount of undistributed ma- 
terial on and mid accommodating the normal growth of the 
herbarium during the coming year. 
The front houses of the new plant range are being filled 
with from three to five feet of rich top-soil mixed with man- 
ure and coarse raw crushed bone. This is being done in order 
to furnish an ample depth of rich soil for the large tropical 
plants which will be set out directly in it. When the work 
of excavation for the new plant range was begun, all the 
top-soil over the area to be excavated was kept separate and . 
laced in piles from which it is now being moved into the 
ouses The work has been greatly facilitated by using soil 
carts running on a narrow gauge track. The latter is moved 
and extended when necessary, both in the houses and at the 
soil heaps. 
