171 
EXHIBITION OF THE AMERICAN GLADIOLUS 
SOCIETY 
The American Gladiolus Society, ma the auspices of the 
New York Botanical Garden, The Horticultural Society of Nev 
York, and The New York Floris ts’ ca will holds its eae 
annual “exhibition on August 23 to 26, in the museum building, 
New Y i 
sho Th 
Sanat ot the show, oe fale eal is now any for 
Horticultural Society of New York, New York Botanical Garden, 
Bronx Park, New York City. The general prizes of this schedule 
otanic 
lub. ition to these there are special prizes offered by 
various individual s aod § 
r garden flowers, giving 
us a ae of mics ener © bloom during the summer 
months when showy f1 plentiful as they are early 
in the season. There are many hundreds of kinds of these flowers 
which have been produced by selection and hybridization, rang- 
ing in color from white through pink, rose, lavender, mauve an 
urple. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
The following visiting botanists have registered in the library 
during June: Professor Alexander W. Evans, New Haven, Conn.; 
Professor George M. Reed, Columbia, Mo.; Professor F. E. Lloyd, 
Montreal, Canada 
North American ee volume 10, part 3, by W. A. Murrill, 
appeared June 25, 1 This part contains ee iptions of 11 
genera and 324 a. ‘6k rusty-spored gill-fungi, including 76 
species described as new. 
