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ARALIACEAE. Ginseng Family 
Hedera. Ivy 
Hedera Helix. ENcuisu Ivy. 
Location: Wall at approach to elevated railway. 
Natural distribution: Europe, Canaries, Northern Africa, and 
Asia. 
Acanthopanax. ACANTHOPANAX 
Acanthopanax Maximowiczii. Maximowicz’s ACANTHOPANAX. 
Location: Arboretum. 
Natural distribution: Japan. 
Acanthopanax pentaphyllum. FIvE-LEAVED ACANTHOPANAX. 
Location: Fruticetum. 
Natural distribution: Japan. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. Stewardson Brown, curator of the Herbarium of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, spent a week at the Garden in 
May. 
Mrs. Maud L. Johnston is the first woman to register for the 
course in gardening, which has been in progress at the Garden 
since January. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden number 37, with 
7 pages, was issued May 12, 1919. It contains the annual 
reports of the director-in-chief and other officers for the year 
1918. 
Mrs. E. G. Britton spoke before the Plainfield Garden Club 
on May 14 and the Rumson Garden Club on May 20, on the 
subject ‘Rare plants hardy in the New York Botanical Garden,” 
accompanying her remarks by a demonstration of the plants. 
Professor H. M. Fitzpatrick, of Cornell University, recently 
spent several days at the Garden consulting material for the 
