MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 61 
NOTES 
On March 16, Mr. Thurston, Instructor in Floriculture, 
Iowa State College, visited the Garden. 
Mr. Alexander Lurie, Horticulturist to the Garden, gave 
a talk on “Hot-beds” before the Webster Groves Garden Club, 
March 13. 
Mr. Harland Bartholomew, Engineer for the City Plan 
Commission, addressed the Hortus Club on “City Planning,” 
February 26. 
Dr. George M. Reed, Professor of Botany at the University 
of Missouri, recently spent a day at the Garden, en route 
to New York where he will spend some months in the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, lectured 
before the Alumni Association of the Washington Univer- 
sity Dental School, March 16, on “Some Phases of Para- 
sitism and Immunity in Plants.” 
On March 16, at the St. Louis Flower Show, Mr. G. H. 
Pring, in charge of conservatories at the Garden, gave a talk 
on “Aquatic Plants for St. Louis,” and Mr. Alexander Lurie, 
Horticulturist to the Garden, spoke on ““Back-Yard Gardens.” 
On Saturdays and Sundays during April there will be a 
bird walk at the Garden; on Saturdays commencing at the 
main gate at 9 A. M., conducted by Dr. Charles H. Danforth 
and Mr. Robert W. Barrell, and on Sundays at 8:30, con- 
ducted by Mr. George F. Tatum and Mr. R. F. O’Neal. 
The first number of Volume IV of the Annals of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden has been issued with the follow- 
ing contents: 
“Hybrid Nymphaeas.” G. H. Pring. - 
“Monograph of the North and Central American Species 
of the Genus Senecio—Part IT.” J. M. Greenman. 
“A Spurless Variety of Habenaria psycodes.” Mary M. 
Bryan. 
“A Systematic Study of the Genus Trillium, Its Variability 
and Its Relation to Paris and Medeola.” R. R. Gates. 
The first St. Louis flower show in seven years was held at 
Armory Hall, March 15-18, under the auspices of the St. 
Louis Spring Flower Show Association, and was a great suc- 
cess. The Garden was represented by a number of displays 
