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of all plan and in all its aspects as wild as a garden can be.... It 
was made piecemeal and as the late Mr. Wilson’s fancy dictated... . . 
There are no broad paths . . . . no geometrical beds. .... All is natural, 
yet natural with plants of every conceivable description. .... Not a thing is 
named, but labels in such a garden, if used, must be numbered by thousands. 
. There is no digging permitted in the many acres thus wildly planted. 
The men do little else but pull weeds, and occasionally use the knife.” It is 
to be hoped that the garden will be maintained as at present and that the 
Society will reorganize its garden at Chiswick and equip it with a staff of 
investigators for experimental work. 
NOTES FROM THE BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY OF THE U. S. DEPART- 
MENT OF AGRICULTURE: 
Dr. GEorRGE T. Moore, physiologist, has been sent to Europe for the 
purpose of investigating the methods used there in the study of soil bacteri- 
ology, and for the purpose of securing plants of various kinds for the Office 
of Seed and Plant Introduction. He will return in January. 
R, W. T. SWINGLE has just returned from the Mediterranean region, 
after an extended study of the pistache, a nut-bearing tree which the depart- 
ment is introducing into the southwest. Mr. Swingle has also made a care- 
ful study of several other Mediterranean crop plants and fruit trees, which 
the department is proposing to introduce into the same region. He will 
remain in Washington for some time. 
. H. Dorsett has been authorized to establish in some portion of 
sigan Calitornia a plant testing and acclimatization garden, in coopera- 
tion with the Agricultural Experiment Station of California. This garden 
the department. Mr. W. W. Tracy will assist Mr. Dorsett in selecting the 
location, which will be announced s 
Mr. W Scott, late state sane Ra of a? will give his 
attention especially to work on the diseases of orchard fruits. 
A NUMBER of scientific assistants and aids have <N been appointed. 
In the Office of Physiological and Pathological Investigations: P, J. O'GARA, 
GEORGE F. MILLS, LEONARD F. HARTER, of Nebraska, and ARTHUR H. 
LEIDIGH, of ansas. Mr. se Gara and Mr. Harter will be stationed in 
Washington, and Mr. Leidigh at Amarillo, Texas, on one of the government 
experiment farms, In the office of the agrostologist: M. A. Crossy, and M. 
B, STEVENS, of Michigan; Byron Hunter, of Washington; R. A. OAKLEY, 
of Kansas; C. W. WARBURTON, of Iowa. 
Mr. w. J. SPILLMAN is investigating forage conditions in the northwest. 
C. R. Baty and Davin GRIFFITHS are also in the field, the former in con- 
nection with the exhibits at St. Louis, and the latter studying range problems 
in the southwest. 
Mr. A. S. HitcHcock has ene from a three-months’ trip from 
Louisiana to California and Washington, where he has been investigating 
