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had quite enough and feel full, they hasten to smoke. And 
also many people who do not drink excessively used to smoke 
tabaco as long as they lie on the back or until they tumble 
down, but without indisposition, only like sleeping men. It 
is possible that also some Christians use it already especially 
those who do suffer from mal de las buas, because they say 
that during the time of being out of their senses they do not 
feel the smarting pains of their illness and I do not know. 
‘At present many negroes living in that town and through- 
out the whole island have embraced the same custom and they 
cultivate on the farms and estates of their masters the plant 
I spoke about. They use the articles for smoking or tabacos 
because they say that they fatigue if they cannot work and 
smoke the tabaco. 
‘‘T happen to remember some of the vicious and bad cus- 
toms of the people of Tracia, according to Abulensis super 
Kusebio De los tiempos (Abulensis, lib. III, cap. 168) where 
he says that among other reproachful faults, all, men and 
women, used to dine round a fire and breathe much in order 
to become intoxicated or it may be the following: if they have 
not wine they take seeds of some plants, growing in that coun- 
try, which thrown into the fire, produce an odor which in- 
toxicates all those present without drinking, and it seems to 
me to be the same as the tabacos used by the Indians.’’ 
NOTES 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, attended 
the National Flower Show Committee meeting at Kansas City, 
December 4. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, spoke be- 
fore the St. Louis Garden Club, November 18, on ‘‘The Effects 
of Length of Day on Flowering of Plants.”’ 
The Garden was awarded a certificate of merit by the St. 
Louis Flower Show Association at the annual flower show at 
the Coliseum, November 11-12, for its collection of orchids. 
Mr. Pring gave his illustrated lecture ‘‘Collecting Orchids 
in Colombia, South America’’ before the Parent-Teachers’ 
Association of the Adams School, December 10, 
