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Mr. Hugh Findlay, author of “‘ Practical Gardening,”’ organizer 
and inspector of camp farms for the United States army, and 
later field lecturer in agriculture overseas, has registered as a 
research student at the Garden. 
Prof. N. E. Hanson, of South Dakota, called at the Garden 
November 8, en route to North Carolina. The object of his 
trip is to secure specimens of Rubus Millspaughii, a spineless 
blackberry, to be used in breeding experiments. 
Dr. L. H. Bailey, of Ithaca, New York, who is now identifying 
his collections of Chinese plants, visited the Garden November 12. 
Prof. and Mrs. A. H. Cockayne, of New Zealand, spent some 
time at the Garden and at other New York institutions in Oc- 
tober and November. Prof. Cockayne, who is the government 
biologist of New Zealand, is accumulating data on agricultural 
and scientific education and organization during a six months 
leave of absence. He is the son of Dr. L. Cockayne, the well- 
known New Zealand ecologist. 
The dahlia border, which attracted hundreds of enthusiastic 
visitors for a period of three months, was cut down by frost on 
the morning of November 10, three days later than the first 
killing frost of the previous autumn. While in perfection of 
individual flowers the border was no more notable than last 
year, it was more remarkable in profusion of blooming and in 
general effectiveness, due probably to the copious rainfall of 
summer and autumn and to the absence of extended periods of 
extremely high temperatures. Twenty-four choice novelties 
contributed by J. J. Broomall of Eagle Rock, California, con- 
stituted a striking feature of this year’s exhibit. 
An extensive collection of specimens from the Rio Grande 
Valley, Texas, has recently been received for the herbarium. 
This valuable addition to our permanent collection came through 
Mr. H. C. Hanson who gathered the specimens while working in 
that botanically little known part of the United States. 
