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both wild and cultivated and in varieties that are propagated 

 vegetatively (clonal varieties) it very frequently reduces yield of 

 fruit, as in certain fruit crops, and seeds for use in breeding, as 

 in the sweet potatoes, unless provision is made for the particular 

 cross-pollination necessary for the setting of fruit. 



A. B. Stout 



A PORTRAIT OF MRS. DALY 



Mr. Frank K. Sturgis, a vice-president of The New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, has presented to the Garden Library a framed 

 oil painting of the late Maria Lydig Daly (Mrs. Charles Patrick 

 Daly). 



It will be recalled by founders and other older members of the 

 Garden that Mrs. Daly was very active in its establishment dur- 

 ing the years 1888 to 1894, serving as a member of the committee 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club which obtained the charter of the 

 institution from the State Legislature in 1891, and she was sub- 

 sequently chairman of a committee of ladies appointed to aid the 

 original corporation in raising $250,000 required by the charter, 

 which was completed in 1895, thus enabling the Commissioners 

 of Public Parks to set aside and appropriate land in Bronx Park 

 for the use of the Garden, and the Board of Estimate and Ap- 

 portionment subsequently to appropriate money for the erection 

 of buildings. 



Mrs. Daly died in August 1894. Judge Daly, her husband, also 

 indefatigable in the creation of the Garden, survived her several 

 years and in addition to taking part in the original subscription 

 and influencing other contributors, made bequests resulting in the 

 David Lydig Fund, and the Charles Patrick Daly and Maria 

 Lydig Daly Fund, both permanent and highly useful endowments. 



Mr. Sturgis, who has made this valued gift, is a brother-in-law 



of Mrs. Daly, having married the late Florence Lydig, a younger 



sister. 



N. L. Britton 



CONFERENCE NOTES FOR MARCH 



The regular monthly Conference of the Scientific Staff and 

 Registered Students of the Garden was held on the afternoon of 

 March 3rd. 



