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Corporal Kenneth R. Boynton, head gardener’s assistant and 
formerly editor of the JourNaL at the New York Botanical 
Garden, has been honorably discharged from the United States 
Army and has resumed his work at the Garden as Marshal of 
the Garden School. 
Mr. J. B. Norton, of Washington, paid a brief visit to the Gar- 
den in February to examine the herbarium specimens of Smilax. 
Mr. Norton expects to leave soon for China, in connection with 
the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction. 
Dr. John K. Small, head curator, spent ten days during Feb- 
ruary on a collecting trip in the southeastern states. He visited 
several coastal points as far south as Charleston, South Caro- 
lina, and returned with some valuable material, chiefly specimens 
of cacti. 
The following botanists have registered in the library during 
the winter: Herbert W. Faulkener, Washington, Conn.; Mrs. 
Nellie F. Flynn, Burlington, Vt.; Dr. Forrest Shreve, Tucson, 
Ariz.; Professor W. W. Rowlec, Ithaca, N. ¥.; Miss Caroline C. 
Haynes, Highlands, N. J.; Professor Alexander W. Evans, New 
Haven, Conn.; Professor C. P. Smith, College Park, Md.; Miss 
Ellen Miller, and Miss Margaret C. Whiting, Deerfield, Mass. 
Miss Margaret C. Whitney and Miss Ellen Miller, of Deer- 
field, Massachusetts, joint authors of the ‘Wild Flowers of the 
New England States,” visited the Garden on February 11 in 
company with Miss Alice Donlevy. They have established an 
Arts and Crafts shop in their native town and conducted a series 
of experiments in dyeing with vegetable dyes on plant fabrics, 
particularly homespun linen, using many of our native plants, 
including butternut, sumac, osage orange, red maple, and oak 
galls, and also such imported dyes as indigo, madder, logwood, 
fustic and cutch (Acacia catechu). 
