163, 
Francis Scott Key, with its large blooms with rolled-back 
petals; Jonkheer J. L. Mock, with its heavy tight buds; and th 
Fi 
Mabel Drew, Duchess a Wellington, really a good yellow rose in 
July, ste cae any others were a! in July than in 
: , Lady Ursula, and Mme. Léon Pain like to 
send up es caries, a as flower high, so he are fine summer 
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Mention of the rose ae in 1923 should include one of the 
new beds which on ained four excellent roses, ns sc 
carried of bloom, curiously, of div type. 
These varieties were "Bloomfield Abundance, with Sine pink, 
pointed buds, small in size but large in quantity, of the type of 
the well-known Sweetheart or Cecile Brunner rose, and originated 
to Suan nd surprises, Mme. Butterfly did not des 
to be better than the beautiful Ophelia, of which it is a spor 
= the other a Betty, a Dickson rose, Jehich had been ee 
eak in previous seasons, grew tall, stately, and flowered freely 
= generously in June, and was still better in July. 
KENNETH R. BoyNTON 
INVESTIGATION OF THE HEMLOCK FOREST 
ork Botanical Garden is cooperating with the 
Yale Forest school, together with the forest schools at Cornell 
and Syracuse, ina study of hemlock. For a number of years the 
hemlock forest on the grounds of the Sesh Garden has 
attracted atfention, not only. because of its extent and age, but 
s beir outlier of this type of see ria the 
