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enter No. 13, proceeding along the south walk. In this house 
on the south bench will be found some of the orchids. Amo 
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All of the houses referred to above, with the exception of No. 
In the latter on the north bench are many of the orchids, among 
them an interesting collection of the tropical lady-slipper, Paphio- 
pedilum. 
e two eastern houses of the range (Nos. 11 and 12) are op- 
erated a present as temperate houses, and the grouping of speci- 
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now ready for operation, however, and the main conservatories 
will soon be devoted to exhibition purposes only. 
Grorce V. Nasu. 
WEEPING AMERICAN ASPENS. 
In October, 1896, we obtained from the Harrison Nurseries at 
Lebanon Springs, N. Y., a number of young trees of the Amer- 
ican Aspen, Populus tremuloides, which were set ina nursery r 
moved from this nursery row in the fall of 1899. Shoots came up 
