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■ lily pool. They are all of the '' Gretchen " variety of the Darwin 

 group, and " self-colored/' that is, having the color uniformly 

 diffused, and not in stripes or blotches. They are to be grown 

 naturalized, and should make a beautiful sight the latter part of 

 next May. 



On December lo, 1920, Mr. Norn:ian Taylor, Curator of Plants 

 and Plantations, was made an honorary member of the American 

 Rose Society. 



Mr. Willard G. Bixby, treasurer of the Northern Nut Growers 

 Association, and a member of the Botanic Garden, presented the 

 Garden with twelve named varieties of nut trees for our economic 

 collection, as follows: Ridenhower ahnond (Prunus couuminis), 



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Busseron, Marquardt, and Green River pecans (Carya Pecan) , 

 Pleas hybrid Pecan, Kirtland shagbark hickory {Carya ovata) 

 Beaver h3'brid hickory, Thomas and Stabler black walnuts {Jug- 

 lans nigra), and the Rush and V. Franquette English walnuts 

 {Jaglans regia). These trees have been planted out on the west 

 border mound, opposite the laboratory building. 



On one of the flowering almonds {Prunus tomcntosa endo- 

 tricha) in the Prunus triangle a number of flowers were fully 

 opened on December 15 — one of numerous plant responses to the 

 unusually warm weather for this date. This shrub is from the 

 collection of E. PI. Wilson, In China. 



