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of this exhibition, owing to the unusual character of the display. 
The exhibit represented a miniature rose garden, the ground 
vases in the interior. A small receptacle representing a pond 
in the center contained gold fish. The display was very cred- 
itable and might be taken as a suggestion to other exhibitors 
to get away from the formalities usually imposed upon flower 
shows. 
The New York Botanical Garden made a eae of the 
flowers of herbaceous plants and of shrubs and t 
GEORGE “V. Nasu 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
tr. n K. Small, of the Garden staff, spent several weeks 
during ice nd July in Florida in further botanical exploration 
of the southern portions of the Everglades and the Florida Keys. 
Professor E. M. Gilbert, of the botany department of the 
ee Wisconsin, spent a week at the Garden recently 
in the study of herbarium material of Tremella and other related 
gelatinous pe 
Dr. F. D. Fromme, formerly a student at the Garden, has 
accepted the position of ea at the Virginia State Agri- 
cultural Experiment Stat: 
Five small and compact volumes by Dr. W. A. Murrill 
keys, contains ase of all of the species known to occur 
in the region covered in each respective case. The treatment 
of the Polypores known in different sections ae the country in 
separate volumes is a convenient t will enable 
the worker to locate the species in his own section of the country 
without being compelled to ‘‘wade’’ through the literature of 
