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The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad to Botanical 
venue ted Railway to Botanical Garden, Bro k 
Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Railway 
at 149th Street aud Third Avenue. Those coming by ew 
for crosstown trolley, transferring north at Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
The collection of flowering plants and ferns made in Colombia 
y Dr. Rusby and Dr. Pennell Jast summer and brought back 
by Dr. Rusby is being mounted and incorporated in the Garden 
herbarium. 
The lichen herbarium of the late William Mitten presented to 
M 
This collection contains many fine specimens most of which are 
determined. 
Special effort should be made at this season of the year to aid 
in the campaign which is being waged against the tussock moth. 
Th h + er F b ae 5 eae . se + th 
which were deposited in the autumn. These should be removed 
or preventéd from hatching by daubing with creosote. Every 
egg mass destroyed now will mean several hundred less caterpil- 
lars to combat during the summer. 
A very fmpereat and timely treatise on the control of diseases 
andi f the home vegetable garden, by W. A. Orton 
and F. H. Chittenden, has recently appeared as Farmer's Bulletin 
856 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This bulletin con- 
sists of 72 s and 82 figures and contains descriptions and 
methods of fea of all the ordinary diseases and insect pests 
met with in the vegetable garden 
