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During the latter part of April and the first week in May 
much additional planting was done in the garden, including 
azaleas and other bushes, numerous trees, and German and 
Japanese Jris along the shore of the lake. Several honey-locusts 
and Scotch pines were planted north and west of the garden to 
serve as a screen between it and the large museum building. 
On Saturday afternoon, June 5, from 3:30 until 6, about 550 
members and friends enjoyed an inspection of the entire grounds, 
preliminary to their being thrown open to the public on the fol- 
lowing day, after having been temporarily closed for a little over 
one year. 
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APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS 
On April 17, Miss Alice I. Sabens resigned her position as 
stenographer to accept an appointment as teacher in charge of 
the school gardens, at New Rochelle, N. Y., installed for the 
first time this spring under the immediate direction of the local 
board of education. 
The resignation of Mr. Guy S. Bisby, laboratory assistant, took 
effect on May 3, and on the following day Mr. Bisby left for 
Presque Isle, Maine, to accept, for the second season, the position 
of consulting plant pathologist with the American Potato Cor- 
poration, of Presque Isle, Maine. Mr. Bisby’s duties will be, as 
heretofore, to seek to eradicate, as far as possible, plant diseases 
from the hundreds of acres of potato fields under his supervision. 
This work is under the direct control of officials of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, the new government labora- 
tory for the study of potato disease being now located at Presque 
Isle. This method of the prevention of the spread of disease at 
the source of the seed has proved to be the most efficient method 
of handling certain serious diseases of potatoes. 
Professor H. M. Fitzpatrick, of the department of plant 
pathology of the New York State College of Agricuiture, at 
Ithaca, will join the Garden staff for the three months beginning 
June first. Professor Fitzpatrick, while at the Garden, will con- 
tinue his work on various fungi and fungous diseases of plants. 
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