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was searched for its botanical treasures, particularly for plants 
ound there early in the last century and not recently collected, 
nor rediscovered there. A shrub and several kinds of trees still 
remain to be rediscovered, and unless they are found at an early 
date, they will never be found, for they will have gone forever 
together with the little that remains of the original hammock 
where they evidently once grew. In fact, it will not be very 
long until the only pouena of Key West will consist of way- 
side and backyard wee The native vegetation of many 
other of the Florida Keys i is also doomed. The hammocks of 
Big Pine Key will not survive very | We devoted as much 
time as possible to these, and ee ae whole length of the 
key in search of two age or trees collected there many years 
ago by Dr. Blodge Our search for these was unsuccessful, 
but much else of ere interest was secured. 
all the others supporting pinelands in addition to hammocks, 
should be explored almost every month of the year, if we ne 
to get a complete collection of their interesting vegetatio 
Our party returned to New York without an accident and with 
a collection of museum specimens and about 6,000 herbarium 
specimens of flowering plants. 
Respectfully submitted, 
J. K. Sati, 
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium. 
FLOWERS FOR THE SPRING GARDEN 
Perhaps there is no side of the garden which appeals more 
eloquently to us than do the flowers of spring. After the long 
hard winter and the confinement indoors are about to end, we 
hail with peculiar delight the arrival of the first warm days, for 
they sound the knell of winter, and tell us that the earth is about 
to awake and clothe herself with all the wealth and beauty of 
the flower world. And from this awakening in spring to the 
frosts of fall we can have a succession of flowers, if we but plan 
our garden aright, so that at all times there will be something 
of beauty or interest to which we can turn our attention. 
