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the Bulletin will be continued, according to a statement of Mr. 
Stanley Baldwin, made in the House of Commons. The Select 
Committee on Publications and Debates’ Reports have recom- 
mended that the Bulletin be continued, but on a more economical 
basis. 
The Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion (Geneva) for 1916, part two, is an imposing volume of 
541 pages and 94 illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of 
Andrew Jackson Downing, a noted early American horticulturist, 
a map showing the peach regions of New York State, and many 
beautiful colored illustrations of fruit, foliage, and blossoms. 
The book contains a wealth of historical, botanical, and horticul- 
tural information concerning the peach. Among other things 
the author reviews the various lines of evidence that the peach 
did not come originally from Persia, although that fallacy per- 
sisted in all horticultural and botanical literature for 2,000 years. 
Fic Macrosamia spiralis, received from Australia Feb. 16, 1915. 
Note “abt lateral carpellate, or “female,” cones. (Neg. 2314.) Cf. Fig. 12. 
