46 THE PLANT WORLD. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The agricultural products exported from tlie United States during 

 llie five years 1S04-0S had an average annual value of $663, 5?)6, 201. 



According to a I)ulletin recently })ul)lished by the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture the total agriculture exports of the United States during 

 the the year 189.S, reached the enormous sum of f^858,507,942. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of 

 Wyoming, the herbarium connected with that institution Avas officially 

 recognized as The Rocky Mountain Herbarium, the purpose being to 

 build up, and make accessible and serviceable, a collection of the plants 

 of the Rocky Mountains. It already numbers a])()ut 20,000 sheets. 



We read in a York newspaper that an Elm tree, five feet in diam- 

 eter, which for years was the oldest landmark in the eastern section of 

 the city, was cut down recently l)ecause "it was in the way"'!' Is a 

 tree of this kind ever in the way^ It certainly is not in the way of 

 anyone who has a due ai)preciation of its value and oeauty. For more 

 than a hundred years it appears to have been regarded as a thing of 

 beauty and joy. One does not care to say in print what he thinks of 

 the iconoclastic sentiment that laid it low. — Tin Xin^ Kra^ Lancaster, 

 Pa. 



In the last issue of Thk Plant Worm), I was nuich interested in 

 what was said about the cultivation and connnon name of T!<(r>ll<i 

 eordlfol'ni . It is very common and beautiful in my locality at Port 

 Huron, St. Ulair Co., Mich. Although 1 had watched it some what for 

 many years, I did not discover until last fall that it had a tendency to 

 rtui to vines. While botanizino- in the woods one dav last fall, Mrs. 

 Dodge called my attention to a plant on an old log Avith very })retty 

 and leafy vines running down to the ground. At first I could not be- 

 lieve that it was T'm !■<■]] a cordlfoHd. This particular plant was taken 

 u|), [)laced in a pot for the house, and the vines have been growing all 

 winter. \\'e afterward found a number of specimens with vines. Jn 

 many instances a short distance from the mother plant these vines 

 took root like the vines of the strawberry. — C. K. Dodge. 



