78 THF PLANT WORLD. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The rare little fern, Scldzma j^usiUa, is reported l)y Miss E. H. 

 Terry in the April Fern Bulletin from the vicinity of Lakewood, New 

 Jersey. 



Number four of the Nature Study Leaflets, issued by the Natural 

 Science Committee of the Associate Alumnae of the Normal College of 

 New York City, is a popular treatment of Mosses by Eliza])eth G. 

 Britten. It should stimulate the study of these interesting plants. 



The largest pulp mill in the world is at Saulte Ste Marie. Twenty- 

 two acres of the best spruce land is cleared and converted by this mill 

 into 250 tons of pulp in a single day, and this is consumed l>y a great 

 newspaper in two days. — The Forester. 



In the March Botanical Gazette, Mr. J. Schneck of Mt. Carmel, 

 111., reports the establishment of the Cretan brake {Pteris cretica) in a 

 number of wells in that vicinity. This plant is well-known in conser- 

 vatory and household cultivation and its spores appear to have found 

 their way into the wells where the plants grow and multiply luxuriantly. 



According to the March number of the Journal of the New Yoi'Jc 

 Botanical Garden, the herbarium of that institution contains about 

 98,000 specimens of the higher plants, and the Ellis collection of fungi 

 which numbers 80,000 specimens and is by far the largest in this 

 country. The herbarium of Columbia University, one of the largest 

 in America and containing over 600,000 specimens, is also deposited at 

 the garden. 



The olive can be grown only in a small and favored portion of the 

 globe; middle and Southern California, and (perhaps) part of Arizona, 

 are the only points in the United States, so there will be no danger of 

 overproduction. Regarding the culture of the olive from the merce- 

 nary standpoint, there is more to commend it than either the orange or 

 the prune. Trees are now growing in California that at eight years 

 old produce 2,000 gallons of olives to the acre. These will make 2b0 

 gallons of oil, which — at say $3.00 per gallon, means an income of 

 1750 per acre. The net income from such a crop, would be not less 



