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Columbus, Ohio, for an exhibit on landscape architecture and 
city planning at Ohio State University. 
Mr. Jan Jensen, landscape architect, of Chicago, visited the 
Garden on November 14, in company with Mr. Gates D. Fahne- 
stock. Mr. Jensen was called to New York in consultation on 
the matter of the proposed changes in Riverside Park, Man- 
hattan, . 
On November 1 the director of the Garden addressed the first 
year’s assembly of the Eastern District High School on “The 
Study of Plants.” 
The Royal Botanic Society of London has announced an “ open 
air school,” at the botanical gardens, Regents Park, for the chil- 
dren of fellows and members of the Society. Pupils are ad- 
“mitted between the ages of four and twelve years. 
The University of Pennsylvania has received $25,000 from 
the estate of Anna Yarnall, the income of which is to be used for 
the maintenance of the Botanic Gardens of the university. 
We learn from Science that Stanford University has acquired 
by purchase the herbarium of Mr. Samuel B. Parish, compris- 
ing about 50,000 specimens of the flora of California and the 
Pacific Coast. 
Banana Harvest—The second bunch of bananas to be grown 
in our economic house was cut on November 6. There were 
nearly 300 bananas on the bunch, the total weight of which was 
214 Ibs. Last year’s bunch weighed only 170 Ibs. This year’s 
fruit-stalk alone weighed 18 tbs., and the largest “hand” 
weighed 17% Ibs. Eleven bananas, picked at random, weighed 
a total of eleven pounds. The relative size of the bunch is well 
shown in fig. 1. The rapid growth of the banana plant is note- 
worthy. The sucker from which this year’s plant was produced 
was planted in October of last year, and rapidly attained a height 
of about thirty feet. The first flowers opened on June 8, and the 
first fruit ripened about November 6. 
The Boys’ Club—The Boys’ Club of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden met Saturday afternoon, November 18. These meet- 
