Wanted. — Short notes of interest to the general botanist 

 are always in demand for this department. Our readers are 

 invited to make this the place of publication for their shorter 

 botanical items. The magazine is issued as soon as possible 

 after the 15th of February, May, August and November. 



Longevity of Botanists. — An interesting illustration in 

 support of the opinion that working among plants conduces to 

 health and long life is found in the lives of two botanists who 

 died within two days of each other in December last. One of 

 these, Victor Lemoine, a descendant of a long line of garden- 

 ers and himself a horticulturist of world-wide fame was in his 

 89th year. The other, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, was still 

 older lacking only about six years of reaching the century mark. 

 Hooker, it scarcely need be said was the son of Sir William 

 Hooker, also famous as a botanist, and the director of the Kew 

 Gardens, to which position his son succeeded him. The long- 

 life enjoyed by these botanists was not the result of existence 

 in which work played no part. On the contrary, they were 

 both unceasing in promoting the interest of their favorite 

 sciences almost up to the time of their death. 



Flowers Out of Season. — It is a noticeable fact that 



the flowers that linger with us the longest are not always the 



autumn flowers, but more often summer flowers that continue 



to bloom even after severe freezing weather. The dandelion 



for instance has been seen in bloom here as late as the first days 



of December. The tall bellflower {Campamula Americana) 



of our woods is sometimes found in bloom in November, after 



we thought all flowers of the woods were gone. Several of the 



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