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said: ‘After it once gets a start you couldn’t kill it out if 
you wanted to’.’’ 
NOTES 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, gave an 
illustrated talk on ‘*Collecting Orchids in South America’’ be- 
fore the St. Louis Electrical Board of Trade, at the Hotel 
Statler, May 27. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, lectured be- 
fore the Garden Club of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, June 25, 
on ‘‘What Goes On in the Soil.’’ 
At the commencement of Washington University, June 12, 
degrees were conferred upon members of the graduate lab- 
oratory at the Garden, as follows: Doctor of Philosophy and 
Master of Science (as of 1923), Carl Clawson Epling; Master 
of Science, Fanny Fern Smith and Louise M. Stupp. 
Recent visitors to the Garden include Dr. H. M. Jennison, 
professor of botany, University of Tennessee, and Dr. R. W. 
Webb, of the Office of Cereal Investigations, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, at Madison, Wisconsin. 
