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Dr. A. B. Stout of the New York Botanical Garden has some 

 surplus specimens of the Day Lily, Hemerocallis, with which 

 he has long been working, installed in this garden, through Mr. 

 Lewis' cooperation. This flower collection is a treat, in assemb- 

 ling so many exotics, alpine and others, in so small a space and 

 it would be a privilege if the Torrey Botanical Club could make 

 an annual visit there. 



Raymond H. Torrey 

 Chairman Field Committeee 



Field Trip of Sunday, September 7 



Thirty two members of the club and friends were led on this 

 trip at Caldwell, N. J., by Professor Oliver P. Medsger. The 

 trip led through some interesting second-growth woods and 

 over a small hill whose dry top showed fine clumps of the stiff- 

 leaved aster, Aster or lonantis linariifolius. A number of species 

 of aster and goldenrod were noted, also species of Desmodiiim, 

 including nudiflorum, rotujidifolium, grandiflorum, Dillenii, and 

 paniculatum. Fortunately the fruit of these latter were not 

 quite ripe so comparatively few clung to the clothing of the 

 party. Some fine plants of the smooth false foxglove were seen. 

 On top of the hill where lunch was eaten there was a plentiful 

 growth of the shrubby bitter sweet, but most of the fruiting 

 vines had been pulled down and the branches broken off, the 

 ground being littered with the broken twigs. Here, as in many 

 places near the cities, the vines found are mostly staminate, 

 the pistillate plants having been destroyed by those who love 

 beauty, or can make a profit from others love of it. 



Field Trip of Sunday, September 14 



In spite of the usual deterrents for this season of the year; 

 namely hot, muggy weather and an army of mosquitoes pre- 

 pared for the attack, ten people made the trip to Fresh Kills 

 and vicinity Sunday, September 14th. On account of the great 

 crowd of Sunday excursionists at the bus at St. George, the 

 trip was taken in reverse order, the party entraining for Elting- 

 ville, whence a bus was taken to Richmond Road at its inter- 

 section with the highway across Fresh Kills. Here botanizing 

 commenced. 



