Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, Volume 22The Garden, 1921 Vols. for 1933-41, 1945 includes the Annual report of the director, 1933-40, 1944. |
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Page 48 - Garden. $1.00 per volume. To others, $2.00. [Not offered in exchange. ] Vol. I. An Annotated Catalogue of the Flora of Montana and the Yellowstone Park, by Per Axel Rydberg. ix + 492 pp., with detailed ma'p. 1900. Vol. II. The Influence of Light and Darkness upon Growth and Development, by DT MacDougal. xvi...
Page 122 - ... our knowledge of the typical centrosome has been extended and systematized so that it is possible to state what constitutes a centrosome. If the writer by his efforts has in any degree aided in paving the way to an earlier understanding of the matter, he is satisfied. SUMMARY. (1) The researches have shown that there are at least two species of Zamia in Florida, where only one has heretofore been recognized as occurring. These are Zamia floridana DC.
Page 107 - THE John Burroughs Memorial Association has been inaugurated at a meeting of a number of his friends at the American Museum of Natural History, the immediate purpose of the association being to protect Mr. Burroughs' home and camps and to preserve them, with their wild life, for future generations.
Page 93 - Museum, carried on botanical exploration in the Republic of Colombia. The expedition was organized by the New York Botanical Garden, the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum as part of a general plan, adopted in 1918, for botanical research in northern South America. Financial assistance was given also by Mr.
Page 48 - The New York Botanical Garden Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, monthly, illustrated, containing notes, news, and non-technical articles of general interest. Free to all members of the Garden. To others, 10 cents a copy; $1.00 a year. [Not offered in exchange.] Now in its twentieth volume.
Page 40 - Its purpose and the objective which the many member clubs strive to attain is "to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening among amateurs, to share the advantage of association through conference and correspondence in this country and abroad, to aid in the protection of native plants and birds, and to encourage civic planting.
Page 183 - In it I find a charm presented by no other flower. Its soft tints of buff, sulphur, and primrose ; its dazzling shades of apricot, salmon, orange, and vermilion are always a fresh revelation of color. They have no parallel among flowers, and exist only in opals, sunset skies, and the flush of autumn woods.
Page 16 - ... strongly pistillate, yielding seeded fruit. Weak femaleness (seen in seedless fruits) is in this case dominated or swamped by the strong femaleness of the seed parent. However, the seeded character of FI individuals is no index of the variation in intersexes that may appear in later generations in which the segregation of at least some plants bearing seedless fruits may be expected. The use of other seedless sorts in such crosses may, however, give different results. The most effective course...
Page 116 - University of California, Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California. Mitscherlich, EA (1919), "Ein Beitrag zum Gesetze des Pflanzenwachstums,
Page 127 - ... an inhabitant as Dr. Turnbull, but I confess I envy. Florida that pleasure, and wish he had settled with us, though I believe he has chosen the better part The doctor carries home some packages of East Florida plants, which you will see. I shall be very glad to know what you make of John Bartram's Tallow tree, and what you call that herb whose leaves look like the Fern Osmund Royal, while its seeds are large red berries in a cone, somewhat resembling the Magnolia in appearance. I shall be glad...