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pendant, the open flower erect and the fruit pendant, and various 
combinations of growth and movement of the separate parts m 
be made in order to accomplish the purposes of pollination ane 
seed dissemination. 
D. T. MacDoveat. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
e A. Skene, who has been serving as a Foreman 
Second Gard as charge of the general cultural work on 
all the plant collections, both out-of-doors and conservatory, 
though mos his will necessarily be devoted t 
conservatories r. Skene has had a long and varied experience 
in the growing of plants, and is critically acquainted with a ver 
large number of species, th ue names and relationships e 
was employe u of years at the estate of t n 
Robert P. Parrott at Cold Spring, N. Y., and was general fore- 
man for a time of the greenhouses of Governor Hamilton Fish. 
n the contract for the completion of the main conserva- 
compl tis hoped that the additional hous 1 be - 
leted so as to be available for operation by ber; these will 
stand immediately against the southwestern side o! uses 
already built, the whole range forming a quadrangle open to the 
sout er is approached by park dri 
under construction b: Devlin se additional 
i Co. ese a 
houses will give much greater cultural possibilities, as they wil 
supply seven more compartments, including a large tank for 
e recent cotepickon of the water pipe extending from the 
six-inch main near the museum building about half a mile across 
the Garden to the stable and propagating houses, brings the latter 
at last into practical operation; many plants received by us in 
poor condition and which for want of other place have had to be 
