JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. X August, 1909. No, 116. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN IN Gea HUDSON-— 
FULTON CELEBRAT 
In codperation with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commis- 
sion, specimens of all the native trees of the Hudson River Val- 
ley growing in the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden 
will be marked temporarily with a large letter ““H.”’ Inasmuch 
as nearly all the wild trees of the valley are growing within the 
grounds, either wild there, or planted in the arboretum and along 
the driveways, this illustration of the trees which might have 
been seen by Hudson and his company in 1609 will be nearly 
complete. While the number of individuals of most kinds in the 
Hudson Valley has been greatly reduced by clearing land for 
cultivation and by lumbering operations, it is not likely that any 
species native to the valley has been exterminated within its 
bounds 
Another feature will be a Guide Book to the grounds, buildings 
and collections of the Garden to which will be appended a de- 
scriptive list of the native trees of the Hudson River Valley writ- 
y Mr. Norman Taylor, an assistant curator; this list will 
give a short popular account of each of the kinds of trees and a 
number of them will be illustrated by reproductions of photo- 
graphs. This document will be issued as a Bulletin of the Garden 
and distributed to all members and to institutions with which 
the Garden has exchange arrangemen 
The question has been asked if any oe the large trees of the 
Hudson River Valley were in existence in 1609 
likely illustrations of this are the large white oaks ee alba) 
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