54 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 



Missouri, and Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Director Botanical Re- 

 search of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Desert 

 Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, April 16. 



Miss E. M. Wakefield, F. L. S., assistant, in Mycology in 

 Kew Herbarium, England visited the Garden March 27- 

 Apnl 3, consulting the mycologieal collections in the Garden's 

 and Dr. Burt's herbaria and the rarer mycologieal works in 

 the library. During the winter Miss Wakefield was engaged 

 m Government work in plant pathology in Barbados and 

 neighboring islands of the West Indies. She is now visiting 

 the principal centers of mycologieal activity in the United 

 States and Canada before returning to Kew. 



From an article in "The Park International" for March 

 1921, entitled "Park Architecture," under the sub-head 

 Setting": 



"In developing the setting it should be kept in mind that the 

 glass element is more out of keeping with natural scenery than 

 with the building elements which adjoin the park. A setting 8 uch 

 as one finds in the Missouri Botanical Garden where the main palm 

 house is placed well within the park but as the terminal feature of 

 an important boulevard leading to it is an excellent solution of the 

 problem. A house of glass is such an absolutely artificial object 

 lacking even the basic natural element of soliditv that it needs a 

 certain transitional formality of surrounding instead of close juxta- 

 position with natural conditions. This indicates the advantages of 

 terraces and display gardens. If a display house is to draw visitors 

 during the winter the designer is vitally concerned when in ap- 

 proaching the buildings, the unpleasant aspects of the season are 

 emphasized by the emptiness of pools, the bareness of flower beds 

 or the graceless forms of straw-covered bushes, no matter how 

 wonderful the pools, parterres or rose gardens may have been at 

 the proper season. These considerations would indicate that the 

 outdoor display of plant material should be so arranged that its 

 off-stage dishabille will not be seen between the acts. Surely the 

 entrance side of a group can be kept sightly at all seasons with 

 three other sides, access to which can be controlled for the seasonal 

 display of perishable material. These points are raised in the 

 architectural discussion so that the designer of a group will realize 

 that the setting of a structure is a matter for his own consideration 

 and not for a subsequent happenstance development." 



Two views of the main range of conservatories, reproduced 

 from the book of views of the Garden, recently issued, were 

 used in connection with this article. 



From Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXV, No 2 February 

 1921 ' ' 



"When pondering greenhouse matters, the question Bometlmea 

 arises as to whether we are getting the most out of our greenhouses 

 by the prevailing system of growing plants in pots. Those who 

 attended the 1920 convention of the association (National Associa- 



