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do), containing a little water. The straps are picked up with a 

 pair of forceps used in applying them to the sheets, and while 

 held in the forceps are laid on the moistened lower pad, while the 

 upper one is pressed down upon it. In this way the straps can 

 be moistened very rapidly and one soon learns to regulate the 

 amount of water in the pan so that they will get just the right 

 amount of moisture. 



H/.RBARIUiM OF THE NeVV MEXICO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



SHORTER NOTES 



The Cedar of Lebanon. — I have read the compilation of 

 notes on Cedrus Libani in Torreya, and as usual in similar pub- 

 lications botanists alone are made to figure. William Lithgow, 

 a Scotch traveller, visited the Lebanon Grove in i6i i and found 

 twenty -four trees much burnt in one grove, and spoke of another 

 of seventeen trees nine miles west. 



One of the first trees planted in Britain is at Bretby, Derby- 

 shire, planted in 1676. The late Sir J. D. Wolff, "Rambling 

 Recollections," Vol. 2, p. 18, seems to have known Rustem 

 Pacha (spoken of by J. D. Hooker) who told him that he 

 replanted the Lebanon Grove with young trees from the Brussels 

 Botanical Garden ! (This ought to be easily verified.) 



Professor Marquand's tree at Princeton had a fine growth and 

 lots of cones a year or two ago, but remains quite pyramidal (see 

 Downing's 1859 ed.). 



James MacPherson 



Trenton, New Jersey 



Submerged Willows. — My attention was called during the 

 past summer to an interesting illustration of the tenacity with 

 which our common willows cling to life. An artificial lake was 

 formed in my vicinity last year by damming a small brook, mak- 

 ing a lake nearly a mile long and fifty feet deep at the deepest 

 point. Part of the valley which was covered by the water was 

 occupied by a thicket of willows. These were left standing with 

 the belief that they would soon rot away and disappear, and were 

 covered so that their topmost branches were five or six feet below 



