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According to the Evening Post, George W. Hess, of the District 

 of Columbia, has been appointed Superintendent of the National 

 Botanic Garden to succeed C. Leslie Reynolds, who died recently. 

 Mr. Hess is forty-nine years old, and has been growing flowers 

 and trees since he was sixteen. For the last few years he has 

 resided in the South. At a recent civil service examination he got 

 a rating of lOO per cent, on the growing of foreign plants, and 98 

 per cent, on general gardening. 



At the annual meeting of the Club held Tuesday, January 13. 

 the following officers were elected for the coming year: Presi- 

 dent, R. A. Harper; Vice-Presidents, J. H. Barnhart and H. M. 

 Richards: Secretary and Treasurer, B. O. Dodge; Editor, A. W. 

 Evans and the following Associate Editors, Jean Broadhurst, E. 

 D. Clark, J. A. Harris, M. A. Howe, H. M. Richards, A. B. 

 Stout, and Norman Taylor. Dr. William Mansfield was elected 

 delegate to the council of the New York Academy of Sciences. 



