MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 43 
need to be kept fresh by watering, but should never be soaked 
or placed where the temperature is more than a few degrees 
above freezing. 
EXHIBITION OF GARDENING BOOKS 
Beginning with the 29th of March, there will be on ex- 
hibition in the Museum (No. 15 on map of Garden dis- 
tributed at main gate) a general collection of books of 
interest to those who have anything to do with flower gar- 
dens of any kind. In addition to books treating the home 
garden as an entirety and various aspects of landscape 
work, there are special volumes on roses, iris, sweet peas, 
lilies, ete. There will also be found a considerable num- 
ber of books on trees and hardy shrubs, vegetables and 
mushrooms, as well as some of the more useful gardening 
and horticultural magazines. In the same room is shown a 
unique collection of specimens illustrating the diseases of 
living trees and timbers, due to fungous growths or insects. 
The exhibition will be open every week-day afternoon, from 
two until five o’clock. 
OPEN SUNDAY SEASON 
Beginning with Easter Sunday, April 4, and continuing 
until the last Sunday in November, the Garden will be open 
every Sunday afternoon from two o’clock until sundown. In 
the floral display house on the first open Sunday there will 
be a collection of about one thousand cinerarias, with roses, 
eo and various other flowering and foliage plants in pro- 
usion. 
NOTES 
Dr. Barker, of the Oe eta of Plant Breeding of Cor- 
nell University, visited the Garden on March 3. 
Twenty-five members of the St. Louis Section of the Ameri- 
can Nature-Study Society visited the Garden on March 5. 
The botany class from Forest Park University, St. Louis, 
in charge of iin McClure, visited the Garden February 18. 
On March 18, Mr. C. Garrett addressed the Webster Groves 
— Club, of Webster Groves, Missouri, on the subject of 
“Roses.” 
The March number of “The American City” contains an 
article on “The ‘Places’ of St. Louis,” by Mr. John Noyes, 
Landscape Designer to the Garden. 
