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Meteorology for April—tThe total precipitation for the month 
was 2.62 inches. Maximum temperatures for each week were 
53° on the 2nd, 65° on the 12th, 83° on the roth, and 68° on the 
24th. Minimum temperatures were 24° on the 4th, 28° on the 
roth, 27° on the 14th, and 33° on the 24th. 
n exhibition of plants and flowers was given by The Horti- 
cultural Society, in cooperation with the Garden, in the museum 
building, on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and ro. The prizes 
were offered by the New York Botanical Caster: to obs awarded 
by the exhibition committee of the council of the Horticultural 
Society of New York. Premiums were offered for the flowers 
of herbaceous plants and of shrubs and trees, and for plants of 
pelargonium and calceolaria, of both of which there were some 
excellent samples. 
On May 16, Dr. Mel T. Cook, of Rutgers College and the 
New Jersey Experiment Station, conducted a party of twenty- 
two members of the staff and sophomore students of Rutgers 
College through the conservatories and grounds of the New York 
Botanical Garden, and on May Ig he made the tour of the Garden 
with a party consisting largely of seniors. 
A special lecture on ‘‘The Cultivation of Plants’’ was given by 
Mr. Nash on April 22 and 27 to children of several of the public 
schools of The Bronx who were going into the school gardens on 
Arbor Day. This lecture was attended by 1400 children, ac- 
companied by their teachers. 
ACCESSIONS 
PLANTS AND SEEDS. 
65 plants for conservatories. (By exchan, ith the Missouri Botanic Garden. 
4 plants for conservatories. (By ee with the fae States National 
Museum, through Dr. J. N. Rose.) 
6 plants of Doryalis caffra. (By exchange with the Bureau of Plant Industry.) 
plants of Musa Cavendishii multiracemosa. (By exchange with Porto’ Rico 
Sonne Station, through W. E. Hess.) 
