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of yellow flowers and Spathoglottis aureo-Vieillardii the yel- 
low terrestrial orchid, together with various other forms of 
botanical interest may now be seen in flower. 
The following enumeration will serve to give some idea 
as to the number of species in bloom each month through- 
out the year 1913: January, 64; February, 17; March, 14; 
April, 20; May, 13; June, 20; July, 21; August, 22; 
September, 11; October, 12; November, 24; December, 40; 
a total for the year of 278. 
NOTES. 
Dr. Walter Swingle, of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, visited the Garden on November 29. 
The exhibit of primroses and poinsettias is being continued 
in the floral display houses of the new conservatory. | 
The Graduate Club of Washington University held its 
Christmas meeting in the Garden, on December 20. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, addressed 
the Garden Club of Webster Groves on ‘“The Organization 
and Work of the Garden Club.” 
Professor Wm. Trelease, former director of the Garden, 
and now professor of botany at the University of Illinois, 
spent November 28 and 29 at the Garden. 
On December 3, Dr. Geo. T. Moore spoke before the 
Alumni Association of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy 
a nee Missouri Botanical Garden and Its Relation to the 
ublic.” 
Dr. J. M. Greenman, Curator of the Garden Herbarium, 
delivered an address before the St. Louis Academy of Science 
on December 1. The subject of Dr. Greenman’s address was 
“The Flora of the Gulf Coastal Plane.” 
The Annual Gardeners’ Banquet, provided for in Mr. 
Shaw’s will, was held at the University Club on the evening 
of December 17. Mr. John Noyes, of Boston, gave an illus- 
trated talk on the parks and park system of Boston. 
Professor D. T. MacDougal, Director of the Carnegie Desert 
Research Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona, visited the Garden 
November 24 and 25. While there Professor MacDougal 
addressed the seminar of graduate students on some of the 
more important problems connected with desert vegetation 
which are being investigated at his laboratory. 
