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Last year the legislature of New York state passed an amend- 

 ment to the conservation law to protect trailing arbutus. This 

 season the law has been further amended to protect flowering 

 dogwood, mountain laurel and pink lady's slipper. It is made a 

 misdemeanor to pick or injure any of these plants on any public 

 land or along any street or highway. 



A new method of controlling crow gall in apple nurseries has 

 been devised by the U. S. Department of x'\griculture. The method 

 consists in dipping both stock and scion in an organic mercury 

 solution. The particular compound rejoices in the name hydroxy- 

 mercurichlorophenol and is used at the rate of one part to four 

 hundred of water. Department Circular No. 376 describes the 

 method. 



The University of Minnesota has started work on a new building 

 for botanical work. The building with its equipment will cost 



1225,000. 



We read in Science that Dr. George T. Moore, director of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden, has returned from a trip to 

 Central America where he secured many additions for the garden's 

 collection of tropical plants. Also that Prof. Samuel J. Record, of 

 the Yale Forestry School, has returned from a collecting trip 

 of two and a half months in the forests of Central America. 



G. E. Collins and F. E. Kempton, of the U. S. Bureau of Plant 

 Industries are in Hayti at present, starting experiments with 

 corn hybrids. 



Lovers of plants, botanists and horticulturists of the whole 

 world have mourned the death of Luther Burbank, the great 

 breeder of plants. Known as the plant wizard, he has developed 

 more varieties of plants and done more to enrich agriculture and 

 horticulture than any other man. He was active in the work of 

 developing new forms up to the time of his last illness. He died 

 on April nth at his home in Santa Barbara, California, at the 

 age of seventy-seven. 



