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In the annual report of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture it is stated that in efforts to make 

 the United States self-sufticient in agricultural products ex- 

 periments have been in progress that prove that Japanese mint, 

 the source of menthol, can be grown successfully with a satisfac- 

 tory oil content. Santonin, an important vermifuge for hogs, 

 grows exceptioiialU well in California and Oregon. Rubber 

 producing plants are being grown in Southern California and 

 Florida and experiments will be extended to Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Texas, and South Carolina. Tung-oil trees are already 

 being grown on a commercial scale in Florida with plantations 

 of about 1,300 acres. 



At a meeting of the Board of Managers of the New York 

 Botanical Garden on January loth Mr. Henry W. De Forest was 

 elected president of the board. Henry de Forest Baldwin and 

 F. K. Sturgis were elected vice-presidents; John L. Merrill, 

 treasurer; Dr. N. L. Britton, secretary; and Dr. Marshall A. 

 Howe, assistant secretary. 



G. Proctor Cooper sailed from New York on December 3rd for 

 Central America where he will make a study of forest conditions 

 and collect specimens of plants for the New York Botanical 

 Garden, the Yale School of Forestry and the Field Museum of 

 Natural History. 



The new rose garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is near- 

 ing completion, the unusually mild weather last fall having 

 favored both building and planting. The work of construction 

 has been carried on under the direct supervision of Mr. Montague 

 Free, Horticulturist of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with the as- 

 sistance of frequent conferences with Mr. Harold A. Caparn, Con- 

 sulting Landscape Architect of the Botanic Garden, and also 

 designer of the Rose Garden. Near the south end, the shelter, 

 or pavilion has been completed for some time, consisting of the 

 pavilion proper, with pergola-like entrances or vestibules of 

 similar construction on either side. From the hill to the north- 

 ward one obtains a splendid view of the garden as a whole, the 

 interior being divided up lengthwise into three rows of beds, 

 each bed being surrounded by a wide grass plot. Eighty-five 

 concrete uprights mark the boundaries of the garden, and on 



