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five feet high having been secured for this purpose. For those 

 who do not have land available and who would like to have a 

 memorial tree planted, the offer is made to designate one of 

 these spruces as desired on receipt of ten dollars, which will cover 

 cost of tree, of planting, and of its care, which will be the same 

 as that of other trees in the Garden. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor Henry Allan Gleason,of the University of Michigan, 

 recently spent two months in the study of North American Iron- 

 weeds, the genus Veronia and near allies at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Professor Gleason published some years ago 

 a preliminary revision of Vernonia and he is now preparing the 

 manuscript of the tribe Vernonieae for the North American Flora. 

 Dr. Gleason spent a day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where 

 he revised the collection of Vernonia in the herbarium of that 

 institution. 



Mr. Charles Piper Smith, who has published several papers on 

 Liipinus in the Bulletin, spent ten days recently in studying 

 these plants at the herbarium of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 and at the Gray Herbarium, Cambridge. 



We learn from the Michigan Agricultural College Record of 

 the death on December 6 of Miss Rose M. Taylor, instructor in 

 botany at the College. 



We learn from the Evening Sun that because of the similarity 

 of climate and soil conditions of Texas and the land upon which 

 the Jewish " Republic of Judea " will be built, the Zionist Society 

 has retained Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, plant pathologist of the 

 Texas agricultural experiment station, for a high agricultural 

 post in the new nation. 



Much of the data compiled during his service here will be 

 available for use in Palestine Dr. Taubenhaus says. 



