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An international conference on plant hardiness and acclimati- 

 zation was held in this city October i, 2 and 3, under the auspices 

 of the Horticultural Society of New York. On October 3 the 

 members of the conference were guests of the garden ; the fore- 

 noon being devoted to the reading of papers and the afternoon 

 to the inspection of the collections. Luncheon was served in the 

 laboratories. 



A very interesting fungus was recently presented to the garden 

 by the China and Japan Trading Company, of this city. A bale 

 of cotton cloth, made in this country, stored for a year in Shang- 

 hai, China, and lately returned to New York by a Suez steamer, 

 was wet in the voyage home, and, standing in the warehouse of 

 the company here, developed the fungus. The fruit-body is 

 about ten inches broad, six inches long, and four inches high. 

 It consists of a mass of pure white, overlapping, leaf-like portions 

 arising from a common point of attachment on the outside of the 

 bale and connected with the vegetative portion of the fungus 

 (mycelium), which permeates the inside of the bale in the form of 



white threads. The 



dily r< 



s belonging t< 



:nus Pleurotus, of the fleshy fungi, but the 



Some Recent Visitors. — Professor C. F. Austin, of the Cuban 

 Agricultural Experiment Station ; Mr. P. L. Ricker, of the Na- 

 tional Herbarium, Washington, D. C; Mr. Charles E. Monroe, 

 of Milwaukee, Wis.; Major E. W. Woodward, of Oakland, Cal.; 

 Mr. H. C. Irish, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis ; 

 Professor N. E. Hansen, of Brookings, S. D.; Mr. E. M. East, 

 of New Haven, Conn.; Mr. W. H. Evans, of Washington, D. C; 

 Professor W. A. Munson, of Morgantown, W. Va.; Professor 

 H. L. Hutt, of Guelph, Canada, and W. T. Macoun, of Ottawa, 



Meteorology for Sep 



-The total precipitation for the 

 month was 7.93 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded 

 of 8o° on the 1st, 8i° on the 7th, 85 on the 15th, 89° on the 

 2 1 st, and 79 on the 23d; also minimum temperatures of 59 

 on the 7th, 55° on the 13th, 53 on the 19th, and 34° on the 



