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ficient stock to offer to the trade. In the early period of the re- 

 search, some fifteen years ago, Mr. Bertrand Farr encouraged the 

 writer in his efforts in breeding daylilies and he greatly aided the 

 progress of this work by supplying plants, some of which he ob- 

 tained from abroad. Of various nurserymen who were ap- 

 proached at that time for aid he was the only one who gave sup- 

 port and sympathetic and constructive advice. The firm which 

 has succeeded to the business established by Mr. Farr has con- 

 tinued to assist in the work and has made liberal exchanges of val- 

 uable plants other than daylilies. 



There are many "good" seedlings which are not quite "excel- 

 lent" in grade. It is the plan to assemble these in somewhat nat- 

 uralistic display plantings in suitable locations in The New York 

 Botanical Garden. This is a matter in which Mrs. Wheeler H. 

 Peckham and Mrs. Harold McL. Turner of the Advisory Coun- 

 cil are interested, and it is the plan that they will give attention to 

 the grouping of the plantings according to color of flowers, habits 

 of growth, and season of bloom. 



A. B. Stout. 



THE FANLEAF-PALM— WASHINGTONIA FILIFERA 



Although the western side of North America was formerly 

 much more difficult of access from the Old World than the east- 

 ern, early explorations were nearly simultaneous in the two widely 

 separated regions. It may be that the fanleaf-palm was seen by 

 European expeditioners as early in the sixteenth century as was 

 the cabbage-tree of our eastern shores. 



On account of the tardiness in the permanent settling of the 

 western coast of America, the fanleaf-palm did not get recognition 

 in American literature nearly as early as the cabbage-tree did. In 

 fact, there seems to be nothing to amount to much until about the 

 middle of the last century. 



The references in American literature to the fanleaf-palm begin 

 shortly before the middle of the last century. They occur as mere 

 incidental mention of a palm-tree or group of palm-trees in the 



