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 same spirit that the true scientist publishes his discoveries to 

 the world. The editor of The American Botanist is no excep- 

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The effort to secure superior varieties of our native plants 

 for cultivation discussed on andllier i)age of this issue is worthy 

 oi general encouragement, v'-^uperior forms are all about us 

 and need only to l)e reported to become valuable. Among 

 those that have come under our personal notice is a form of 

 the smooth sumach {Rhus (jlabra) which produces a round- 

 headed plant with a single stem quite like some of the dwarf 

 trees seen in formal plantings. In 1919, the late 1.. H. Read 



