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NOTES AND LITERATURE. 



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Some interesting notes on the Banksian Herbarium are contained 

 in the Journal of Botany for November. 



The Report of the committee on school gardens and children's 

 herbariums, contained in No. 2 of the Transactions of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society for 190 1, recently issued, is a very instruc- 

 tive document for those interested in nature work in the public 

 schools. 



Some of the results reached by an award for home and school 

 grounds, Colorado Springs, Colo., are shown in Park and Cemetery 

 for October. 



A well illustrated and practical paper on Shade trees for city 

 streets, by Murrill, is published as Bulletin 205 of the Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experiment Station. 



A paper on the Colors and aromas of flowers, by Cadevall y Diars, 

 constitutes Vol. IV, No. 27, of the Memorias de la Real Accidentia de 

 Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona. 



A paper in the Bullet in of Miscellaneous Information. No. 36, of 

 the Botanical Department of Trinidad, states that Nepenthes is 

 profitably grown in the West Indies among orchids as a means of 

 catching cockroaches, which are said to be destructive to these plants. 



An interesting Essay on the cultivation and curing of Vanilla, con- 

 stitutes No. 35 of the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, issued 

 by the Botanical Department of Trinidad. 



The September number of the Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits 

 and Federated Malay States is largely devoted to India rubber. 



Economic fruits and seeds are taken up in Lieferung 10 of Wies- 

 ner's Rohstoffe des Pflanzenrcichcs. which is intended to be completed 



The cold storage of apples, with a consideration of the influence 

 of cold storage on the decay of apples, and the chemical changes 

 which occur during storage, by Morse, is published as Bulletin 93 of 

 the New Hampshire College Agricultural Experiment Station. 



An illustrated paper, by Hartley, on injurious effects of premature 

 pollination, with general notes on artificial pollination and the setting 

 of fruit without pollination, has been published as Bulletin No. 22 of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



