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campus comprising 380 acres, and plans are now being perfected 
for developing the area as a botanic garden. ‘The new garden 
will include an arboretum and a fruticetum and the arrange- 
ment of the plantations will be geographic and ecologic. ‘The 
present garden has an area of only five acres. Like the old 
garden, the new one will be under the directorship of Prof. 
William A. Setchell, with Prof. H. M. Hall in immediate charge. 
We have received a copy of the Announcement (August, 
1912), of the Ranger School of the New York State College 
of Forestry, at Syracuse University. The Ranger School, located 
at Wanakena, N. Y., covers a belt of country over three miles 
long and comprising 2000 acres of forest land in St. Lawrence 
county. It has an average elevation of 1500 feet, and includes 
Cranberry Lake, the largest in the Adirondacks. The curriculum 
includes both theoretical and practical courses, including silvi- 
culture, forest surveying, estimating and mapping, forest pro- 
tection, and methods of lumbering. ‘The ranger school is open, 
free of tuition, “to men over 18 years of age who present certifi- 
cates of good character and perfect physical condition.” ‘There 
is a five year course leading to the degree of master of forestry. 
A summer camp is announced to be held on Upper Saranac Lake 
during August, 1913. 
The New York State College of Forestry, at Syracuse Uni- 
versity, had two interesting exhibits at the New York State 
Fair at Syracuse in September, r912. One was an exhibit of 
tree seeds, seed beds, and forest plantations, and the other an 
exhibit of a simple plant for treating posts by boiling in creosote 
oil, showing how the durability of fence posts, shingles, and 
other farm timbers could be increased. In connection with each 
exhibit there was distributed a brief guide, giving information 
on the subject of the exhibit. The pamphlets, copies of which 
are in the Garden library, are admirable for the purpose intended. 
In his lecture before the Department of Botany on Sep- 
tember 12, Professor de Vries described the peloric (five spurred) 
toad-flax, and his experiments demonstrating the production of 
a peloric strain from the normal by mutation, rather than by 
