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Over 200 ornamental trees and bushes, and Japanese and Ger- 
man /ris were planted in the Japanese garden in April. 
A total of 324 students were registered in the various classes 
of instruction at the Garden in April, 283 in May, and 258 in 
June. During May, 78 class exercises and lectures were given, 
with an attendance of 2,052; during June, 19 classes with an at- 
tendance of 1136. Fifty-one parties were conducted through the 
Garden by the docent in June. 
The attendance at the Garden on June 6, the first day of its 
»eing open to the public in over a year, was about 3,000. The 
total attendance for June was 10,000, the largest for any one 
month since the establishment of the Garden. 
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The April number of the Plant World announced two prizes, 
of $50 and Sro respectively, to be awarded for the best papers 
embodying original work in any phase of the water relations of 
plants. “The offering of these prizes is made possible by the 
generosity of Prof. B. E. Livingston and by contributions from 
Dr. D, T. MacDougal, Prof. J. J. Thornber, Dr. J. B. Overton, 
Dr. H. C. Cowles, Dr. W. A. Cannon, and Mrs. Edith B. Shreve. 
Competing papers should be written so as to give no internal 
evidence of authorship, and should be sent to the editor of the 
Plant World by December 1, 1915. The manuscripts will be 
submitted to a committee of seven judges, whose names will be 
announced later, and the award will be made public on March 1, 
1916. The prizes will be withheld if it is the opinion of the 
judges that no paper has been submitted which is worthy of them. 
The second prize will be awarded at the discretion of the judges 
and may be added to the first prize if there is a wide hiatus 
between the merits of the two best papers. The Plant World 
reserves the right to publish any papers submitted in the contest, 
and in the case of such publication the author will be given an 
opportunity for the revision of his paper but not for any con- 
siderable extension of it.” 
The Brooklyn Standard-Union, for ‘April 1, 1915, contains the 
following item: 
