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The address to the graduating class of the School of Horticul- 
ture for Women, Ambler, Pa., was delivered on December Le. 
1918, by Director Gager, on the subject, “Horticulture as a 
profession.” 
The first number (September, 1918) of a new botanical publica- 
tion, Botanical Abstracts, appeared in November, 1918. It is 
the aim of this journal to give abstracts and citations of publica- 
tions in the international field of botany in its broadest sense, and 
the plan is to issue two volumes of 300 pages each within a period 
of one year. Prof. Burton E. Livingston, of Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, is editor-in-chief, and the editorial board, as at present 
constituted, comprises fifteen editors, each in charge of a separate 
department, with the codperation of a large number of collabora- 
tors for abstracting. The department of Botanical Education is 
in charge of Dr. Gager, the director of the Garden. Dr. Olive, 
Dr. White, Dr. Gundersen, and Mr. Taylor, of the Garden staff, 
are collaborators. The launching of this publication is the most 
important event in the field of botanical periodical literature since 
the establishment of the American Journal of Botany, in 1914. 
Heretofore the botanical world has been chiefly dependent on 
Germany for its abstract journals. 
Dr. Kwan Koriba, professor of plant physiology, and Dr. 
Jinichi Yano, professor of modern Chinese history, Imperial Uni- 
versity, Kyoto, Japan; also Dr. Nahetaro Miura, professor of 
civil engineering, Kumamoto Higher Technical School, Japan, 
visited the Garden on October 5, 1918. They were specially in- 
terested in our Japanese garden, and commended it as one of the 
best examples of Japanese landscape gardening they had seen in 
America, 
According to the Weekly News Letter (October 16, 1918), the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture has planned to issue about 
1,000 feet a week of motion picture film for six months, beginning 
in Octboer, 1918. The primary object of the films is to aid in 
the “ More Food” campaign. Farm labor, harvesting wheat and 
other crops, Red Cross pig clubs, fighting insects and plant diseases 
