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The newspapers have recently contained numerous arti- 

 cles on the appearance of the Mediterranean fruit fly in 

 Florida and the quarantine established by the national govern- 

 ment in cooperation with the state in the effort to prevent its 

 spread. The fruit fl>- has been a serious pest in many countries 

 for several centuries past. The i\y attacks nearly ripe fruit, 

 laying its eggs in the fruit, where they develop into maggots. 

 As many as 600 eggs may be deposited in a single fruit. Almost 

 any kind of fruit — apples, peaches, cherries, tomatoes, manges 

 as well as the citrus fruits are attacked. In the regions where 

 the fruit fly has been found all fruit and vegetables will be either 

 destro}'ed or processed and from areas of nine miles around 

 the infested ones none can be shipped without rigorous inspec- 

 tion and certification. 



The gold medal of the Linnean Society of London has been 

 awarded Professor Hugo de Vries, of Lunteren, Holland, in 

 recognition of his work on mutations. (Science) 



At the Fifth International Botanical Congress to be held in 

 Cambridge, England, in 1930, motions on the subject of no- 

 menclature will be considered. Such motions, printed in Latin, 

 English, French, German, or Italian must be in the hands of 

 the Rapporteur general. Dr. John Briquet, Conservatoire 

 botanique, Geneva, Switzerland, before September 30, 1929. 



At the Allegany School of Natural History in Allegany 

 State Park, western New York, Mr. William P. Alexander has 

 established an Indian Garden which not only shows all of the 

 plants used by the Indians for food, fibers, dyes and medicines, 

 but also trys to show the Indian's ideals of conservation. The 

 Indian medicine man saved seeds of the plants he used and when 

 gathering the plants chanted a song to the effect 



"I will not destroy you, but plant your seeds, 

 Plant them in the hole from which I take you." 



All the world's the stage in "Naturalized Plant Immigrants," 

 a new 3-reel picture just released by the Office of Motion 

 Pictures of the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 From windswept plains of Manchuria to the reeking jungles 

 of the tropics one is taken with the department's plant ex- 

 plorers on a search for plants of potential economic value in 



