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find twenty trees of eleven different types in the nurseries of the 
Hinode Nursery Company, at Whitestone, Long Island. These 
trees were well grown, averaging ten or twelve feet high, and were 
in excellent condition. Their location in this easily accessible 
nursery made obtaining them a simple matter, and early in April 
teams were sent to Whitestone, accompanied by our own gar- 
deners, the trees were carefully dug out and were set in their new 
home within forty-eight hours after being taken from the nursery. 
At the present writing, they are in bloom and objects of great 
beauty. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Professor William Trelease, director of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, visited the Garden on April 24 and 25 to examine the 
herbarium and collection of living plants. 
Professor W. A. Setchell, of the University of California, visited 
the Garden on April 15 and again on May 2, to examine the col- 
lections of marine algae. He sailed for Europe on May 3. 
Dr. LeRoy Andrews, of Cornell University, had been awarded 
a research scholarship at the Garden for the month of July. 
Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, professor of botany in the newly ex- 
tablished University of Mexico and chief of the section of botany 
of the department of biological exploration of Mexico, was shot 
and killed by insurrectos on April 29 near Cuernavaca, about 
75 miles from Mexico City. Dr. Olsson-Seffer had, often visited 
the Garden and at the time of his death was sending portions of 
the herbarium of the Department of Agriculture of Mexico to 
the Garden specialists for study and determination. In January, 
1909, he established ‘‘The American Review of Tropical Agri- 
culture,’’ which promised much in the way of advancing scientific 
agriculture in the tropics. Dr. Olsson-Seffer was a native of 
Finland, but he received his doctorate from Stanford University, 
where he was instructor in systematic botany from 1903 to 1905. 
There are many interesting things to be seen now in conserva- 
tory rangeno.1. One of these, in house no. 4 on one of the central 
