The Garden Club of America's List of Lectiirers 
Additions and Corrections 
Me. Loring Underwood. 45 Bromfield Street, Boston, Massp.chusetts. "Old New England" Gar- 
dens. Auto-chrome plates, true colors. $85.00 and travelling expenses for self and lantern operator. 
Mr. Underwood includes in this lecture some of the Arnold Arboretum plates, which have been 
very well received. 
The equipment is entirely different from other lantern apparatus, so it is necessary for Mr. Un- 
derwood to take his own operator with him. 
Special An- Signora Olivia Rossetti of Rome, Italy, former associate of David 
NOUNCEMENT Lubin of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, will 
be in America during January, February and March, lecturing in 
English French and Italian. Among the subjects of these lectures is 
one particularly for Garden Clubs, Italian Gardens and Fountains 
(illustrated). All correspondence regarding engagements, terms etc. 
should be addressed to Mrs. Charlotte Barrell Ware, 4 Joy St., Boston, 
Mass. 
A Request from the Department of Agriculture 
F. L. MULFORD 
There is a widespread interest in annual flowering plants, if the 
number of inquiries received by the United States Department of 
Agriculture concerning them is an index. 
A former Department pub]j,cation on this subject is out of print. 
In writing another to take its place, the practice of using common 
names for some plants and scientific names for others has again been 
brought emphatically to mind. In order to have the bulletin as 
usable as possible, it is the desire to discuss the different plants under 
the name most widely and appropriately used. Members of the 
Garden Club of America can be of great assistance by expressing 
their ideas as to what common name should be used for each plant 
in ordinary conversation, whether part of the scientific name or 
something entirely different. In every case the complete scientific 
name wiU also be used, but there are times when the scientific name 
does not seem most appropriate. 
Will you kindly help by indicating on the following list the name 
by which you feel each plant should be discussed by garden lovers? 
Kindly add any other common names that occur to you and indicate 
any that are wrongly appHed. 
Will you kindly underscore your preferred name in each of the 
combmations on the next page, tear out this sheet and mail to F. L. 
Mulford, Horticultural and Pomological Investigations, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C? 
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