Publication of the ,cafets, which was discontinued for the 
summer with Series 1, No. 9, was resumed on September 10 
with Series 1, No. I0, ahh four illustrations, on “Some Interest- 
ing Varieties of Corn Growing in the Garden.” 
During August, the swamp in the brook and the pool sur- 
rounding rock island were both considerably enlarged. 
We learn from Science that Mr. C. Leslie Reynolds, super- 
intendent of the National Botanical Gardens in Washington, 
with which he was connected for forty years, has died at the 
age of fifty-nine years. 
During the past summer an artificial spring was constructed 
in the side of the border mound at the west edge of the eco- 
nomic section. The water from the spring flows down the 
steep slope of the mound into a small pool, and thence into a 
small swamp, thus affording a variety of desirable habitat con- 
ditions necessary for various economic plants, such as rice, 
water-cress, sweet-flag, and others. 
The water pressure of the irrigating system of the Garden 
has never been sufficient for the needs of the plantations, and 
the need for better service will greatly increase with the in- 
stallation of the general systematic plantation on the south 
meadow during the present fall. In anticipation of this need, a 
second six-inch tap was connected with the street main, near 
the southeast end of the Garden, just north of the line where 
Montgomery street meets Washington avenue. The six-inch 
tap leads to a meter, and the pipe from the meter is four inches. 
This provision will double the water pressure on the grounds. 
An account in The Bryologist for July, 1913, of the ninth 
public meeting of the Sullivant Moss Society, held at the Gar- 
den on May 24, 1913, contains the following paragraph: “The 
Botanic Garden was a revelation to those of us who had not 
been over the ground since it was a part of the dumping grounds 
of Brooklyn. The present site of the Lake used to be a local 
skating pond in winter, and mosquito-breeding place in summer. 
