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tissues of the apple and prevented coloring at all. Even the light 

 of an incandescent lamp proved injurious to the apples. The in- 

 jury, however, was not all due to ultra-violet. Using a non-lumi- 

 nous lamp made up entirely of infra-red rays, the same kind of 

 injury was produced. He found ultra-violet lamps with a screen 

 of corex D glass or pyrex glass will color apples satisfactorily 

 during August or September in about forty-eight hours' time. In 

 this way apples raised in the East can be given as good a color as 

 the Western apples. This treatment does not change the flavor or 

 quality but improves the looks of the apples. 



Forman T. McLean 

 Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



The New York State Conservation Department has added 

 to the state forest preserve 24,000 acres of land this spring. The 

 larger part is in Herkimer County, near Beaver River. This tract 

 is heavily timbered with virgin forest. The smaller tract consists 

 of 3,000 acres comprising Howell's Island in the Seneca River, 

 near Seneca Falls, Cayuga County. This is mostly meadow land 

 and in the Montezuma marshes. It will be developed as a game 

 refuge and public hunting ground. 



At the fiftieth meeting of the German Botanical Society in 

 Berlin Dr. E. D. Merrill, Director of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, was elected an honorary member. Two other American 

 botanists have received this honor in the past, Dr. Asa Gray and 

 Dr. Roland Thaxter. At the same meeting Dr. George Shull, of 

 Princeton, was elected a corresponding member. Dr. R. A. Har- 

 per, A. S. Hitchcock, E. D. Merrill, B. L. Robinson, and William 

 Trelease were already on this list. 



