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About 5,000 rose plants have been contributed to the Garden 
through the Horticultural Society of New York, and planting 
ril 2 
Garden Board oa eke ad a omen’s Auxiliary and members 
of the Council of the relative to the further 
development of the Garden, on which | occasion Mrs. Farran 
ectured on ‘‘Roses and the New Rose Garden” and Mr. Joh 
Woodcock, of Ossining, New York, made suppl remarks 
relative to the care and cultivation of roses. Mrs. Farrand’s 
CONFERENCE NOTES 
The April conference of the Scientific Staff and Registered 
Students of the Garden was held in the ey eis of the 
museum building on the afternoon of April 
At this conference two reports of javectigations were presented 
as follow 
“Studie es of es American species of Phyllachora,” by 
Professor C. R. 
The genus Sa ee was described in Symb. ek 216. 
1869, and based on Sphaeria graminis Pers. 
se where this ae was not only described a a 
s well, 
e present study has been undertaken for the purpose of 
presenting descriptions of the species of this genus which occur 
in North Ameri i 
found in tropical North America and some European species 
ave been established 
