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Labels and Signs 
Steel labels for the herbaceous beds............ 00.0 e eee eee 324 
Steelstamiuly, labels tors the bedSwante con ow wetee cena ae ee 56 
Iead labels tor ‘woody, plants s45 esac ic eee II 
Lead labels for conservatory plants............2...0 eee ee eee 12 
Large wooden labels for horticultural forms.............0005 20 
Simalilgawood cialabel Sherer rene pra rere er err ee: 233 
AAVKovara laluhacst an ekrns See ots ky cee ee re TE eS Meaty erat Sky Prien rs 37 
ATG DOAGC pagSI OTS ier ae satg tea cep eae ea erarem re et eee rencesoitere arcs Stays ee 239 
IB es Bas ae ee sO TU oR SERCO ors ee SN Et 932 
Also numerous other miscellaneous numbers and signs. 
An International List of Cultivated Plants 
In correspondence which has progressed for about three years, 
a number of botanic gardens have expressed themselves as fa- 
vorable toward the formation of an /nternational List of Genera 
of Cultivated Plants. Our Communication No. 7, published in 
May, included letters from five gardens, and from Mr. J. Horace 
McFarland, chairman of the American Joint Committee on Horti- 
cultural Nomenclature. He proposes that “ Standardized Plant 
Names,” which follows in the main Bailey’s Cyclopedia of Horti- 
culture, and contains specific as well as generic names, should be 
adopted for some years, with such reservations as the various 
gardens may require. The Communication No. 7 also contained 
a list of about 2500 generic names, following lines indicated as 
most generally acceptable, and a brief list of names frequently 
employed, as to which usage differs. 
Immediately following the Ithaca International Botanical Con- 
eress, which I attended, I left for Europe. After some weeks in 
the mountains of Norway, I visited botanic gardens in Scandinavia, 
Germany, Switzerland, France, and England, a most interesting 
and instructive journey about which I will later report. The 
main object of my trip was to discuss with European botanists 
the possibility of the formation of an international list of plants. 
Plant lists are used by nearly every botanic garden. If similar 
lists could be used, the building up and maintenance of the most 
interesting collections would be greatly simplified. Various prac- 
tical difficulties, climatic, historical, and financial, exist in the way 
of more effective international cooperation. Yet it is evident 
