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titles on drug plants and illustrations of medicinal plants; or a 
former university professor, and an authority on gutta percha, 
pores over, our file of the Malayan Agricultural Journal. 
In order to set up a tropical scene at a flower show, a horticul- 
tural society of a nearby state writes for a list of titles containing 
plates of tropical plants growing in communities. 
An artist desires to see colored illustrations of cane sugar, so 
that she may illustrate an economic botany for the southern states 
as an advertisement for a popular “ soft” drink; or another artist 
calls for illustrations of cultivated flowers to be used as designs 
in the making of wood blocks; or, an author who is writing a 
book on flower arrangement and floral designs is given all possible 
help. 
Requests for books and seed catalogs on Roses, Iris, Cacti, 
Houseplants, Evergreens, and Rock Gardens, are perennial. 
Accessions 
Of the larger sets acquired we might mention Curtis’s Botanical 
Magazine, London, 152 volumes, 1787-1927, and the Annals of 
Botany, London, 42 volumes, 1887-1927. We were fortunate in 
securing complete sets of these much used publications, as both 
titles were on our shelves as deposits, through the generosity of 
the Brooklyn Public Library, with the understanding that the 
volumes were to be returned when needed, and certainly just as 
soon as any part of the new building could house them. 
We also secured the valuable Die Landwirtschaftlichen Ver- 
suchs-Stationen, 106 volumes, 1859-1927; Beitrage zur Biologie 
der Pflanzen, 5 volumes; Jahresbericht der Vereinigung ... der 
angewandten Botantk, volumes 1-16; Anales Sociedad Cientifica 
Argentina, volumes 89-100; Annali di Botanica, Rome, volumes 
I-17. e also acquired Gustav Hegi’s [llustrierte Flora von Mit- 
tel-Europa, 11 volumes, and Konrad and Maublane’s Icones Se- 
lectae Fungorum, volumes 1-3, 1924-27. 
In view of the development of the Rose Garden, it may be 
interesting to mention that we ies Ellen Willmott’s The Genus 
Rosa, drawings by Alfred Parsons, 1g14, 2 volumes; Schleiden’s 
Die Rose. Geschichte und Symbolié in Ethnographischer und 
Kulturlustorischer Besiehung. Ein Versuch, 1873; and eleven 
