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NOTES 
_ A spring flower show will be held in the Armory Build- 
ing, March 15-18, 1917, under the direction of the St. Louis 
Flower Show Association. 
Mr. G. H. Se ee the E. T. Harvey collection of 
water-lilies, Bond Hill, Cincinnati, in the interest of the 
Garden, September 15-18. 
Prof. Charles Sprague Sargent and Mr. Ames, of the 
Arnold Arboretum, recently spent a day at the Garden con- 
sulting oaks and other material in the herbarium. 
A stereopticon lecture on “Insects and Flowers” was given 
by _Mr. G. H. Pring before the members of the Clifton 
eights Presbyterian Church, September 26. 
A reception to the delegates to the General Convention of 
the Protestant Episcopal Churches was given in the floral 
display house of the Garden on October 21, about 2,000 
attending. 
The goose or pelican plant (Aristolochia ee var. Sturte- 
vantu), described in detail in the June, 1914, number of 
the BuLLertn, is producing an abundance of flowers. The 
plant may be seen in the east side of the bromeliad house. 
Mr. Henry Schmitz, B.S., University of Washington, 
1915, M.S. sisiivanity of Washington, 1916, and Mr. Louis 
J. Pessin, BS., University of Georgia, 1915, curator of bot- 
any department, University of Georgia, have been awarded 
Rufus J. Lackland fellowships for the year 1916-17. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Mr. C. J. Humphrey 
of the United States Forests Products Laboratory, M n, 
Wisconsin, September 6 and 7; Professor Arthur L. Peck, 
of the department of landscape architecture, Oregon State 
College, Corvallis, August 80; Mr. Emanuel T. Mische, a 
former Garden pupil and now landscape advisor, Portland, 
Oregon, October 7. 
_ On October 8 about twenty-five members of the American 
Association of Park Superintendents visited the Se lawe tage 
were conducted through the greenhouses and groun b 
special guides, particular interest being shown in the land- 
scape architecture exhibit in the Museum. At the recent 
convention of the Association in New Orleans it was decided 
to hold the 1917 convention in St. Louis. 
The second number of Volume III of the Annals of the 
Missouri Beige | Garden has been issued with the following 
contents: oes 
“A New Senecio from Jamaica.” J. M. Greenman. 
