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e Garden has recently received six large plants of Livistona 
chinensis, a gift from Mrs. F. S. Holbrook, The Uplands, Straw- 
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fifteen feet high and broad, and were sent by Mrs. Holbrook to 
the Garden on a as motor truck. This species is often known 
as Latania borbonic 
On the afternoon of December 7, ninety children of the 5B 
grade from Public School 10 of the Bronx came to the Garden 
for instruction in the classification of plants. They were divided 
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second floor of the museum building were used for demonstration. 
Professor LeRoy Abrams, of Stanford University, has com- 
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give aid; it is anticipated that the herbarium of the Garden will 
be considerably increased in its representation of western species 
in the course of this investigation. 
the meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the 
carte November 29th, Dr. Britton exhibited and remarked 
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