26 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 



NOTES 



The^ ladies attending the convention of the Cleaners and 

 Dyers' Association visited the Garden, January 19. 



Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, lectured 

 before the Patrons' Association of the Mason School, Feb- 

 ruary 17, on ''Mimicry of Plants." 



On January 5, Mr. G. H. Pring spoke before the St. Louis 

 Association of Gardeners on "The Use of Botany to the 

 Gardener." 



On February 5, Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the 

 Garden, spoke before the St. Louis College Club on "Some 

 Aspects of the Japanese Problem in California." 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, has been 

 appointed Chairman of the Board of Control of "Botanical 



Abstracts." 



Mr. John Noyes, Landscape Designer to the Garden, gave 

 a, lantern-slide lecture before the Garden Club of St. Louis, 

 February 15, on "Garden Ornament: Its Location and 

 Arrangement." 



The January number of Parks and Recreation contains 

 two articles by Mr. L. P. Jensen, Arboriculturist to the 

 Garden, one entitled "Interesting Native Flowering Trees 

 for Park Planting" and the other "Proposal for the World's 

 Greatest Garden." 



Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. J. A. Elliott, 

 Head of the Department of Plant Pathology, Arkansas Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, and Mr. M. R. Ensign, Teacher 

 of Vocational Agriculture, Lamar High School, Lamar, 

 Arkansas. 



Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, addressed 

 the upper school of the St. Louis Country Day School, Jan- 

 nary 14, on "Commercial Botany." He also spoke before 

 the Garden Club of St. Louis, January 18, his subject being 

 "The Fertility of the Soil." 



Due to the unseasonably warm weather a few earlv spring 

 plants have flowered at the Garden. Some of those which 

 have been noticed are: dandelion {Taraxacum officinale), 

 since February 1; pussy-willow (Salix cinerea), since Feb- 

 ruary 2; snow-drop (Oalanthus nivalis), since February 2; 

 willow (Sctiix sp.), since February 5; Chinese honeysuckle 

 (Lonicera fragrantissima) , since February 10; soft' maple 

 (Acer saccharin inn), since February 14. 



