BEQUEST OF MARY J. KINGSLAND 



A bequest of five thousand dollars to The New York Botani 

 il Garden by Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland, was received from th 

 cecutors of her estate in the summer of 1920, and on recom 



Kings-land's gift. The boundary fence follows the 

 those previously built on the Fordham University 

 and along the Bronx Boulevard, and will add about fou 



The November conference of the Scientific Staff and Regis- 

 tered Students of the Garden was held in the laboratory of the 



P. M. 



The program was as follows: "Intersexes in grapes" by Dr. 

 A. B. Stout and "The genus Veronica" by Dr. F. W. Pennell. 



Dr. Stout reported on the types of flowers in grapes with 

 special reference to fruit development. The report was based 

 on studies that are being made at the State Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at Geneva, N. Y., in cooperation with the Horti- 

 cultural Department of the Station. Here are grown many 



