NEWS NOTES 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has awarded its 

 gold medal to Mr. Norman Taylor who was editor of Torreya 

 for ten years previous to 1921. The citation accompanying the 

 award reads "For your work in editing the Garden Dictionary, 

 considered the most notable Horticultural book which has 

 appeared in America in recent years." 



The Joshua Tree National Monument has recently been 

 created in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties of Cali- 

 fornia. The monument includes over 800,000 acres of desert 

 land over much of which the peculiar yuccas known as Joshua 

 Trees grow. The range of the Joshua Tree extends north from 

 the new monument into the Mohave Desert and east into parts 

 of Nevada, Arizona and Utah. The monument is to preserve 

 primitive desert life of all kinds. 



Republication of Sargent's Plantae Wilsonianae. This most 

 important publication on the flora of China, issued by the 

 Arnold Arboretum in 1911-1916, has been out of print for 

 several years. A facsimile reprint is now being prepared by the 

 off-set process by the Tri-Union Book Company of Peiping. 

 The three volumes, $15 for the set, may be ordered through the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



Dr. R. B. Harvey, director of the Florida Citrus Research 

 Laboratory, has been elected president of the American So- 

 ciety of Plant Physiologists for the coming year and Dr. O. F. 

 Curtis of Cornell University, has been elected vice-president. 



Dr. Harry Briton-Jones, dean of the Imperial College of 

 Tropical Agriculture and professor of mycology and bacteri- 

 ology died in Port of Spain, Trinidad on November 7 following 

 an operation. He was forty-three years old. 



Dates of Publication of Torreya, Volume 36 



Number 1, January- February March 3 



Number 2, March-April April 27 



Number 3, May-June • June 22 



Number 4, July-August August 21 



Number 5, September-October October 14 



Number 6, November-December December 24 



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