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Date Date 



1. Swelling of buds ^ 8, Beginning of leaf falling 



2. Bursting of buds 9. Ending of leaf falling. 



3. Beginning of leafing ot{t. 10. Beginning of seed ripening 



4. General leafing out 11. General seed ripening. 



5. Beginning of blossoming 12, Beginning of seed falling 



6. General blossoming. 13. General seed falling , 



7. Change in color of foliage , 



14. Quantity of seed 



15. Quality of seed 



General remarks 



Professor W. W. Rowlee of Cornell University has been 

 appointed chief examiner in botany on the college entrance 

 examination board for next year. 



A large collection of desert plants is still on exhibition in front 

 of the main entrance to the Bronx Park conservatories. Those 

 who have not yet seen this unusual garden will be surprised at 

 the brilliant flowers exhibited by some of the plants. One of the 

 so-called " century -plants " is also in bloom, bearing a flower 

 stalk nearly twenty feet tall. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. N. L. Britton left New York August 18 on the Lusitania, 

 for a short visit to England. 



Mr. W. W. Eggleston has recently completed a month's col- 

 lecting trip in western Kentucky. 



Georgia has appropriated ;^ 10,000 for educational work at 

 farmers' institutes in the state. 



