NEWS NOTES 



Proposed Green Mountain National Park 



The State Planning Board of Vermont has proposed making 

 part of the Green Mountains, including some 124,000 acres, a 

 national park. The area would take in the Lion (Camel's Hump 

 Mountain), Mount Mansfield, the highest point in the state and 

 some eight other high peaks. The area is divided into two sec- 

 tions by the W'inooski Valley, but a proposed parkway would 

 be included in the park, connecting the two sections along the 

 western border and affording fine vistas of the mountains. The 

 plans are to have no roads built in the park, but through the 

 new parkway and the improvement of existing roads to make 

 access to the trails' and bridle paths easy. The area is of great 

 geologic interest, through it running the core of the Appalachian 

 system of mountains. It is of especial interest botanically with 

 hardwood and coniferous forests with characteristis floras and 

 an extreme range of botanical formations. The plans call for 

 the acquisition of the land by the state of Vermont (two small 

 state forests in the area are already state property) and deeding 

 it to the United States in the same way that Virginia gave the 

 land for the Shenandoah National Park and Tennessee and 

 North Carolina that for the Great Smoky Mountains National 

 Park. 



The Botanical Society of America and the American Society 

 of Plant Taxonomists will hold summer field meetings from 

 August 18 to 21 at Acadia University, Wolfville, N. S. and from 

 August 24 to 27 at the University of Michigan Biological 

 Station at Douglas Lake, Michigan. 



Dr. John Moore Reade, professor of botany since 1908 and 

 from 1919 to 1926 director of the biological laboratories at the 

 University of Georgia, died on May 8 at the age of sixty-one 

 years. 



The world's largest flower. From June 1 to 11 there was in 

 bloom in the greenhouse of the New York Botanical garden the 

 first specimen of Amor pho phallus titanum ever to flower in 

 America. In shape something like a calla lily, this member of 

 the arum family was over eight feet from the bottom of the 



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