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P. procumbens, of the Alleghanies; a Chinese tulip-tree, which 
is weal tha t so hardy in cultivation as our own 
ema the Japanese Pieris, one of our best cultivated broad- 
Se and our Pieris floribunda of the southeastern 
A. B. Stout 
Secretary of the Conference 
NOTES NEWS AND COMMENTS 
One of the Australian shrubs blooming in the month of March 
wa 
but it wa: til t S ugus 
the Abbé ene in China that the native home of Rosa “Bonksiae 
was found, in western China 
ecimens of several of the collections of bulbs of the spider 
with the study of the spider lilies and swamp lilies now in progress 
at the Garden. Several of the more lately received collections 
of bulbs show signs of producing flowers 
A series of nearly six hundred specimens of the genus elas 
is being incorporated in the permanent cpanade These 
student of the sedges of the wor 
