208 THE PLANT WOELD 



Mr. C. E. Waters, Johns Hopkins University. 



Mr. C. F. Saunders, Pliiladelphia, Pa. 



Mrs. C. A. Hoyt, Pasadena, Cal. 



Dr. H. H. Eusby, New York Botanical Garden. 



*Eenominated. 



Under the terms of the By-Law above quoted, additional nomina- 

 tions in writing, signed by at least ten members, may be submitted to 

 the Secretary up to the time the next issue of The Plant World goes 

 to press. Such nominations should, however, be restricted to those who 

 are already members of the Society or who may have expressed their 

 willingness to become members. 



The annual reports of the officers and of the Board of Managers 

 willbe published in the next issue. 



Chaeles Louis Pollard, Secretary, 

 1854 Fifth Street, Washington, D. C. 



General Items. 



The State of Washington may become in time a formidable compe- 

 titor of Holland in the raising of bulbs. The people of Wliatcom have 

 found the land and climate well suited to this form of floriculture. 

 Elmer E. Johnston, the Washington Commissioner to the World's Fair 

 of 1904, reports that George Gibbs, of Whatcom, has conducted experi- 

 ments with flowering bulbs such as crocus, hyacinth, narcissus, tulip, iris, 

 jonquil and the like for several years, and claims that the climate of 

 western Washington is peculiarly adapted to the growth and culture 

 of such plants. For over one hundred years our florists have imported 

 their bulbs from Holland. Millions of dollars leave the country annu- 

 ally for this purpose. It is the boast of Holland that such bulbs can be 

 grown in no other climate in the world. Mr, Gibbs claims that the 

 climate of the United States outside of western Washington is unsuited 

 to their growth, but that he has fully demonstrated the product of the 

 Puget Sound region fully equals that of Holland. Bulbs from Wliatcom 

 will be a part of the Washington exhibit. 



A useful lesson is afforded by the bergamot as to the employment 

 of common names. Botanists complain of the trouble they have to 

 identify plants under these names, yet take little pains to ascertain pri- 

 ority, but adopt whatever the fancy of the moment may suggest. 

 Thus Dr. Gray, in his "Synoptical Flora," employs the name "horse 

 mint " for the whole genus ; while but one species, Monarda punctata, is 



