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these, as mainstays, a marginal trellis has been erected to furnish 

 support for varieties of climbing roses. 



When it was found that the original sum of $10,000 donated 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Cranford of Greenwich, Connecticut, 

 was not sufficient, the donors increased their gift to $15,000. 

 Approximately i ,000 roses have already been set out. Ultimately 

 the garden will require about 3,000 plants. 



Plans have been prepared for the new Life Sciences Building 

 which will be erected on the campus of the University of Cali- 

 fornia at Berkeley. The building will accomodate the depart- 

 ments of anatomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, physiology, 

 botany, zoology, psychology and a museum of vertebrate 

 zoology. 



On February 16, Professor Hugo de Vries celebrated his 

 eightieth birthday. Since he retired from the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Amsterdam he has lived in the 

 village of Lunteren, Holland. Here he has his garden and 

 laboratory where he is still carrying on experiments on mutation 

 with Oenothera. 



