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the more attractive and those producing the most flowers being 

 near the front, as violets, wild geranium, etc. A few rocks are 

 placed near some of the ferns, columbines, and other plants which 

 seem to prefer a rocky situation. There is a procession of 

 flowers from early spring when the blood-root, hepatics and 

 spring beauties make their appearance, until fall when the asters 

 and other plants are in bloom. Not only is there a succession of 

 flowers, but the foliage is also of interest and beauty. The ferns 

 and blood-root are especially interesting when the leaves are un- 

 folding, and in the late fall the yellow leaves of the spice-bush 

 and tulip-poplar, the red leaves of the maple and dogwood, and 

 also the red berries of the Jack-in-the-pulpit and Solomon's-seal, 

 and the blue berries of the blue cohosh, are very attractive at a 

 time when the flowering season has gone by. 



The desirability of preserving individual trees and strips of 

 woodland in the suburbs of cities was considered, and the opinion 

 expressed that if a universal sentiment were created in favor of 

 this, the means would be forthcoming for the purchase and pro- 

 tection of trees and wooded lots. In this connection the state- 

 ment was made " that there is no item of taxation which the 

 people of London more cheerfully pay than those for the main- 

 tenance of small parks." 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Frederick DeForest Heald has recently been promoted to 

 the professorship of agricultural botany in the University of 

 Nebraska. 



Miss Mary Franklin Barrett (B.L., Smith College, 1901 ; 

 A.M., Columbia University, 1905) has been appointed an instruc- 

 tor in botany in Wellesley College. 



Fred Jay Seaver (M.S., State University of Iowa, 1904), pro- 

 fessor of biology in the Iowa Wesleyan University, Mt. Pleasant, 

 Iowa, has been appointed university fellow in botany in Columbia 

 University for the year i9o6-'o7. 



Mr. Le Roy Abrams, fellow in botany in Columbia University, 



