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At a meeting of the Board of . held December 18, 
1913, the following resolution was ado: 
Resolved: That the Board of ae of the New York 
Botanical ee gratefully, and with high appreciation, accepts 
the gift of Ten Thousand Dollars by Mrs. John Innes Kane as a 
memorial of her late husband, for many years a member of this 
Board, in accordance with the terms of her letter of December 17, 
1913, addressed to Dr. N. L. Britton, Secretary, the income of 
the “John Innes Kane Fund” to be applied to the purchase of 
ae plants for the grounds and greenhouses. 
s foundation is the first which has been established at the 
Garden for the specified purpose of increasing the collections of 
living plants, and it will be of great service, both by supplying 
specimens for scientific investigation and for decorative planta- 
tions. 
A portion of the income of the ‘John Innes Kane Fund”’ for 
1914 was used in the spring for the purchase of ericaceous 
evergreens for planting the semicircular plot 120 feet long, 
Byerdsine 15 ae ae in front of the lower marble basin of 
the mediately in front of the museum building, 
hitherto hee aes as lawn. The background of this fountain 
had previously been planted with arbor vitae, Chamaecyparis 
and other conife 
The plants oanenaee and installed this spring include 150 
specimens of low rhododendrons of six different kinds, occupying 
the two ends of the strip, the middle portion being occupied by 
two species of Pieris, Azalea amoena Hinodegri and Leucothoé 
Catesbaei. 
A photograph of the museum front showing the fountain and 
the new plantation is reproduced herewith. 
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N. L. Britton. 
POISON IVY 
(With PLatrs CKXXVII, CXXXVIII, CXXXIX, anv CXL) 
Poison ivy, Rhus radicans, is one of the most widely eae 
of the plants that occur in the eastern United States. No matter 
