5 
White....... White Doty 
Yellow ......Connie Dick 
Bronze ...... Anna Moran 
Pompons, small-flowere 
Light mn . Little Gem 
Deep pink...Rose Treven 
ellow....... Zenobia and the Baby 
Banaers hatha Mrs Frank Wilco: 
Very early 
White....... Mens: 
Yellow....... Gol Men 
Bronze ...... Glorianna me Ida Schiff 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR JANUARY. 
At the conference of the scientific staff and registered students 
of the Garden on January 4th, reports were given by Dr. M. 
A. Howe and Professor R. A. Harper of the meetings of the 
S. at Toronto. Dr. N. L. Britton then displayed 
specimens of a “witches broom” from a plant of aig 
Dillenii recently sent from Bermuda by Professor H. H. Whetzel. 
The “broom” consists of slender elongated ae very 
different from the normal ches of the pl. he parti- 
of the Floridian Opuntia Pes-Corvi, collected by the Challenger 
Expedition, may have been based on similar specimens. 
T 
Secretary of the Conference 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
At the meetings of the American Association for the Advance- 
organizations, held in Toronto, December 27-30, 1921, the 
Garden was represented by Prof. R. A. Harper, Chairman of 
