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Dr. Marshall A. Howe lectured September 24 on “‘Dahlias 
and Their Culture” before the North Country Garden Club at 
the home of Mr. W. J. Matheson, Huntington, Long Island. 
Mr. Matheson, who is a member of the Board of Managers of 
the Garden, has a choice collection of dahlias and has been a 
frequent prize-winner at exhibitions in New York City and 
vicinity. He has also been a generous donor of roots to the 
dahlia border at the Garden, contributing 94 varieties when the 
border was started in the spring of 1918. 
A maple tree, furnished by the Garden, was planted at New 
York University, University Heights, The Bronx, on the oc- 
casion of the conferment of an honorary degree of Doctor of 
Letters upon Cardinal Mercier on the afternoon of October 8, 
1919. 
Dr. A. B. Stout, Director of the Laboratories, recently spent 
some time at Geneva, N. Y., where he inspected the collection 
of grapes on the grounds of the experiment station in connection 
with his studies on sterility in plants. 
Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, of the Division of Agrostology at Wash- 
ington, sailed October 4 for a six-months collecting trip in British 
Guiana. On this expedition he will pay chief attention to the 
grasses, a group in which he has specialized for years. His 
work is a portion of the tripartite exploration of northern South 
America, undertaken by the National Herbarium, the Gray 
Herbarium, and the New York Botanical Garden, and aset of his 
collections will be deposited in the Garden herbarium. 
Owing to the increased cost of publication, the subscription 
price of .Wycologia has been advanced to four dollars per year, 
taking effect at the beginning of 1920. The same price will 
also apply in the purchase of back volumes, which can still be 
supplied in complete sets. 
