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dams have been built. Black locust, pine, cottonwood and willow 

 trees have already been set out in some of the areas, more of 

 these and other trees suited to the localities concerned will be 

 planted in the spring. 



Mile-long rock gardens. At Cornell University a fund of 

 $250,000 received from the estate of the late Colonel Henry W. 

 Sackett is being used to make accessible and to beautify the 

 gorges of Fall and Cascadilla Creeks. Trails with steps and 

 walls of native stone have been built. Hundreds of young trees 

 and shrubs characteristic of the region have been planted. 

 Rhododendron, flowering dogwood, yews, fragrant sumach, 

 striped maple and hemlock from the university's own nurseries 

 have been used. In addition 500 ferns have been placed in the 

 rocks of the gorge walls and along the stream banks. 



Parke, Davis and Company of Detroit have given to the 

 University of Michigan a herbarium of 50,000 specimens and 

 part of their large botanical library. The herbarium includes 

 plants from South America, Mexico, the East Indies and Africa, 

 as well as 15,000 Michigan plants collected by Dr. O. A. 

 Farwell. 



Dates of Publication, Torreya, Volume 33 



Number 1. January- February, February 16, 1933 

 Number 2. March-April, April 7, 1933 

 Number 3. May-June, June 20, 1933 

 Number 4. July-August, August 11, 1933 

 Number 5. September-October, November 6, 1933 

 Number 6. November-December, December 27, 1933 



