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The fee for this course will be $10, which will include neces- 
sary ase and material. 
A second winter course will be organized for January and Feb- 
ruary, oe 
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Id be addressed 
to RY GRISCOM PARSONS, 
es a Gardening Instruction, Mansion, 
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
The following visiting botanists enrolled in the Jibrary dur- 
a 
Twiss, Unive ity ot Utah; Professor C. R. Orton and Dr. 
en State College, os and Dr. J. N. Rose, Washington, 
D.C. 
Through the kindness of Dr. J. N.R he library has recently 
received a photostat copy of C. A. Lemaire’s I phie descrip 
tive des cactées, Paris, 1841-47. 
It is said that rose leaf-blotch, caused by Actinonema Rosae, 
at intervals of ten days throughout the growing season, except 
when the roses are in bloom 
The gladiolus is subject to a hard-rot disease due to Septoria 
Gladioli, which affects both the leaves and the corms. Crop 
