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ber 15 and 16, the series of indoor floral displays will be 
inaugurated this year in October instead of in November, 
as heretofore. It will consist, in large part, of a collection of 
plants which reach their prime out of doors about the time 
of the early frosts, and will include numbers of potted speci- 
men plants of canna, salvia, besides a collection of foliage 
plants. Under these conditions it will be possible to preserve 
the plants in good condition for a considerable time after 
frost has destroyed the plants out of doors. In addition, 
about 2,000 gladioli, in several varieties, 2,000 plants of 
Torenia Fourneri, and a collection of China asters will prob- 
ably be shown, and together with the above plants are ex- 
pected to provide an attractive exhibit at least until the 
opening of the chrysanthemum display in November. 
As during the preceding year, the floral displays will be 
exhibited in the south wing of the new conservatories. 
NOTES. 
Mr. Alfred Rehder of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard 
University, recently visited the Garden. 
Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the U. S. National Herbarium, 
at Washington, D. C., recently spent a day at the Garden 
consulting collections in the herbarium. 
Dr. David Griffiths, of the Office of Farm Management, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
pba September 11 at the Garden studying types of cacti in 
the herbarium. 
Mr. C. M. Baskett and a party of ladies, the wives of dele- 
gates to the convention of the Missouri Press Association, 
were recently conducted through the Garden by Mr. C. H. 
Thompson, Assistant Botanist to the Garden. 
Mr. Carl Haltenhoff, of Gotha, Florida, a graduate of the 
Garden Course, visited the Garden on August 24 on his wa: 
to Marshall, Iowa, where he will engage in landscape wor 
with Mr. A. H. Smith, also a graduate of the Garden Course. 
Prof. A. 8. Hitchcock, Systematic Agrostologist of the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, together with members of 
his family, visited the Garden recently on his return to Wash- 
ington, D. C., from a summer’s investigation tour In the 
Northwest. 
About fifty members and guests of the En ineers’ Club 
of St. Louis visited the Garden on August 29 and were shown 
the various collections by especially appointed guides. Much 
