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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETLN 93 
to permit as free a circulation of air as possible. Spaces are 
left between the boards on all sides of the box, split bamboo 
eanes being used at the ends when this material can be 
obtained. No skill is required in packing, since the only 
object is to get as many clumps as possible into each case. 
Usually the leaves of one plant are wedged between those of 
another, leaving the roots of individual clumps to come to- 
gether. It is frequently necessary to have several natives 
stand on top of a case in order that the cover may be nailed 
on. After a trip of from one to three months the plants are 
naturally much shriveled. In the Cattleyas recently im- 
ported by the Garden from South America the plants lost 
practically one-half their weight during transit. 
Hybrid orchids shipped by growers in England are packed 
in quite a different way. Three cases of these imported by 
the Garden from England last June contained 130 plants, each 
in its original pot. These were packed with such care that 
not a pot or young growth was broken. Each pot was 
wrapped with excelsior and the leaves and pseudobulbs of 
the plant secured to a stick which extended well above the 
top of the plant. After being prepared in this way the 
plants were placed in rows at either end of the box and each 
row secured by a wooden strip nailed from the exterior of 
the box. The stick to which the leaves and pseudobulbs were 
fastened extended parallel to the stick securing the opposite 
plant, to which they were again fastened, thus bracing one 
against the other and preventing any possible shifting. The 
method of packing in the eases is illustrated in plate 26, which 
shows one of the cases with a side removed, immediately upon 
its arrival at the Garden. 
A VALUABLE SMALL FLOWERING TREE FOR 
ST. LOUIS 
During the spring of 1916 two plants of Laburnum 
anagyroides were imported from Europe to complete the 
collection of Shakesperean plants to be exhibited in the floral 
display house on the occasion of the tercentenary celebration 
of Shakespeare’s death. These small leguminous trees, com- 
monly ealled Laburnum, or ‘‘golden chain,’’ because of the 
