70 THE PLANT WORLD. 



possession of buoyant seeds or fruits reach and finally inhabit 

 certain localities because they can be carried to them. The local 

 distribution depends on the degree of buoyancy developed. Thus 

 the characteristic of Ijuoyancy determines the station rather 

 than this peculiarity being developed by the station. This is 

 apparently a very modern interpretation of the possible causes 

 affecting and effecting the distribution of riparian and strand 

 plants. 



The systematic attempt to destroy portions of the Adiron- 

 dack forests by flooding for the purposes of private gain under 

 a thin guise of pul)lic benefaction will, it is hoped, fail. It is 

 clear that public sentiment is aroused, and a counter attack is 

 being led by the Association for the Protection of the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



A bust of A. Braun, Avliieh stands in the Royal Botanical 

 Gardens at Dahlem, near Berlin, is reproduced in half-tone in 

 the Notizhlait. Appendix 16. This would be a worthy addition 

 to a collection of portraits of l)otanists. 



The TJ. S. Forest Service has succeeded in treating lodge- 

 pole pine with creosote, rendering an otherwise well-nigh useless 

 stick of wood probably capable of serving a twenty-year term as 

 a fence post. The price of this timber has, in consequence, 

 arisen from 25 to 40 cents. 



According to the public press one of the most widely 

 known of the big tree groves of the Sierra ^N^evadas, the Cala- 

 veras Grove, has bv Act of Conc:ress been made a reservation. 



It is reported that Sal ton Sea is encroaching on the govern- 

 ment date orchard at ^[ecca, and that to sa^'C the orchard from 

 inundation it will be removed to Indio^ which is at sea level. 



Mr. W. T. Swingle, in charge of Plant Life History Inves- 

 tigation, IT. S. Department of Agriculture, who was largely 

 influential in the introduction of the date palm, is distributing 

 about 25,000 stocks of the pistache this year. It is thought that 

 the fertile bottom lands of the Southwest, where such trees as 

 the mesquite grow naturally, will 1)0 well adapted to this inter- 

 esting nut tree from Africa. 



