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for all botanists will be held at the Hotel McAlpin, at which the 
retiring president of the Botanical Society of America, Professor 
h: ‘oulter, will give an address on ‘Botany as a National 
Asset.” 
By invitation of the officers of the ne kB ical G 
members of the corporation and of the Women's Auxiliary, and 
their oe visited the Garden on - afternoon of Thursday 
October 26, 1916. 
Moran asm let at the Botanical Garden Railway Sta- 
tion Plaza dd proceeded to the site of the ‘Con- 
vention Garden,” under conetracdon for planting by the Society 
tea was poured at four o’clock. The weather was perfect 
eptember 30, Mr. L. Robba referred to the Garden a 
occur und d and are collected with the aid of trained dogs 
Although frequently collected in America they have never bee 
found t quantity to become a commercial article 
asin Europe. The collector continues to hope that i 
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quantity to make their ee a profitable enterprise. 
Bullet 1 
biting, ad  elcon of the New Vork Botanical “Garden 
was mber 21, 1916. It contains 24 plates and 1 
map, mk 114 sae of text. A number of additions were nec- 
