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site granted for the garden is a farm about 400 acres in extent on 

 the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, which has been neglected 

 for some years. Though it is largely overgrown with poplars 

 and pines, there still exist on it specimens of nearly every native 

 tree to be found in Southern Cape Colony, west of the Knysna 

 forests. The general situation of the garden is all that could be 

 desired. A feature of very great importance is the presence of 

 permanent water, and there are two constant streams, which 

 will be of the utmost value for irrigation purposes, and will, no 

 doubt, also be capable of effective treatment from the scenic 

 point of view, especially as the gorges are richly wooded with 

 native vegetation. There is also a hea\y winter rainfall, and 

 the garden is practically completely sheltered from the drying 

 southeast wind." 



Mr. W. W. Eggleston left New York May 8 for a trip, during 

 May and June, to the Manti, Fillmore and Fish Lake Forests, 

 Utah and the Kaibab Forest, northern Arizona. This latter 

 region, north of the Grand Canon, Arizona, is very little known 

 botanically, having been visited by Mr. Ivar Tidestrom in 1909, 

 but perhaps not previously, by botanists. 



Dr. N. L. Britton and Mr. Stewardson Brown left New York 

 on May 20 for Bermuda where they will study the vegetation, 

 returning about June 8. 



Dr. H. A. Gleason, of the University of Michigan, has returned 

 from a trip around the world begun last September. He will 

 teach the coming summer at the biological laboratory of the 

 University of Michigan. Dr. Gleason expects to spend the 

 month of September at the New York Botanical Garden studying 

 the genus Vernonia. 



It will be a source of regret to local botanists to hear that within 

 a short time there will be practically no natural vegetation left 

 on the Hempstead Plains. A corporation is now ploughing up 

 the virgin prairie with traction machinery and only that part of 

 the plains south of the Motor Parkway remains in its original 

 state. The corporation intends to plough all the plains as rapidly 

 as possible, leasing the ploughed land for agricultural purposes. 



