MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 
TIME 
NAME COLOR OF BLOOM HEIGHT HABIT HABITAT 
exaltatum blue, yellow June-Aug. 24 ft. Perennial Ala. to Minn. 
formosum blue June-July 2-3 ft. Perennial Asia Minor 
grandiflorum blue, white July 2-3 ft. Perennial Siberia 
var. album white 
var. albo-pleno double white 
var. flore-pleno double blue 
var. chinense double blue 
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hybridum blue, white June-Aug. 3-4 ft. Perennial Asia 
var. Barlowit deep blue 
Maackianum blue, violet July o-it. Perennial Siberia 
Menziesii blue April-June 12-18 in. Perennial California 
nudicaule orange-red April-July 12-18 in. Perennial California 
Nuttallit blue June-July 18-30 in. Perennial Columbia River region 
Przewalskii yellow July-Aug. 2-4 ft. Perennial Asia 
scopulorum blue Aug.-Sept. 2-24 ft. Perennial Western coast 
simplea blue, yellow June ie Perennial Idaho 
tricorne blue May 12 in. Perennial Northern U. S. 
trolliifolium blue April 30 in. Perennial Columbia River region 
Zalil yellow June-July 14 in. Perennial Persia 
NOTES 
Mr. R. A. McGinty and Mr. R. W. Webb, Rufus J. Lack- 
land research fellows, were elected to the Society of Sigma 
Xi and initiated at the annual meeting recently. 
The Annual Flower Sermon, provided for in Mr. Shaw’s 
will, was preached at Christ Church Cathedral on May 18 
by the Rt. Rev. John A. Richardson, D.D., D.C.L., Bishop 
of Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, read a 
paper on “Important Factors in the Constitution of Nutrient 
Solutions for the Growth of Seed Plants,” at the meeting of 
the St. Louis Academy of Science, May 19. 
On May 8, Mr. George H. Pring, Floriculturist to the 
Garden, spoke before the McKinley igh School on “Horti- 
culture as a Profession” and gave an ed le 
fore the St. Louis Florists’ Club on “Plant Curiosities.” 
lustrated lecture be- 
For the investigation of the “take-all” and other wheat 
diseases in the Illinois bottoms near St. Louis, the facilities 
of the graduate laboratory are being used by Mr. 
Bo 
McKinney and Miss Edith Seymour, of the Office of Cereal 
Disease Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include the following: Mr. 
M. C. Jensen, Forest Service, U. 8. Department of Agricul- 
ture, Madison, Wisconsin; Mr. Naoji Hiratsuka, Director of 
the Sapporo Branch, Imperial Flax Manufacturing Co. ; Dr. 
