EDITORIAL . 



The appearance of this number is delayed, owing- to the absence 

 of the Editor-in-chief on a vacation and collecting trip in Vermont. 





By the time this number reaches our readers, most of the vacations 

 will be over, and they will have returned home with a renewed stock 

 of good health and note books replete with interesting observations. 

 It is to be hoped that the note books will be freely opened, for "what 

 has interested you, may interest others " 



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In order to supply an active popular demand for information re- 

 garding our new possessions, the Philippines, the Division of Botany 

 in the Department of Agriculture, has just issued an 8-page pamphlet 

 on the "Plant products of the Philippine Islands." It contains a 

 brief account of the economic plants now grown there, and sugges- 

 tions as to what may be expected when American energy and enter- 

 prise have an opportunity to develope it. 



. .. .NOTES fl/^D NEWS... 



The valuable papers on " Methods in Plant Histology " by Prof. 

 Charles J. Chamberlain, of the University of Chicago, continue to 

 appear in the Journal of Applied Microscopy. The parts in the June 

 and July numbers are devoted to staining. 



Varieties of Corn, by E. Lewis Sturtevant, is the subject of a 

 large bulletin (No. 57) from the office of Experiment Stations, De- 

 partment of Agriculture. The late Dr. Sturtevant was a well known 

 authority upon corn and its multifarious varieties, and this may be 

 said to be his last work. In this monograph more than 770 varieties 

 and synonyms are treated and an attempt is made to place the 

 nomenclature upon a sound scientific basis. 



In reply to Mr. Pollard's question in the July issue of The Plant 

 World, Aquilegia Canadensis is found in low sandy woods, where no 

 rock is known, along the New Jersey seacoast. The writer has col- 

 lected beautiful specimens of it in the woods at Wildwood Beach, 

 within a stone's throw of the ocean. Another plant which one 

 naturally expects only in rocky woods, and which grows with the 

 Columbine in the shady sands at Wildwood, is the grass Poa brevifolia. 

 — C, F. Saunders., Philadelphia. 



