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IN 85 YEARS THESE CONTRIBUTIONS
TO
HORTICULTURE AND TO SCIENCE

Education
Guidance of graduate students — college courses in horticulture and botany — field trips — visiting scholars — public classes — lectures to clubs.

Exploration
Botanical expeditions to China, Japan, Korea, New Guinea, tropical America — the Alaska highway — forest surveys of the United States.

Floristic Studies
Eastern Asia, Fiji and other islands of the Pacific — the Philippines — Panama — Mackenzie River Basin.

Fundamental Research
The cambium and secondary xylem — vascular structure of the flower — the "Ranalian" complex — growth substances and chemical weed control — cytology of lilac, forsythia, ash and other woody plants — cytological mechanisms of inheritance — conduction through bark and dwarfing of trees.

Monographs
Azaleas — Lilacs — the relatives of Camellia — the Pines — Lonicera, the honeysuckles — the Rose-Apples, Syzygium — the Screw pines — Yucca — Crataegus — Sorbus.

Plant Breeding
Incompatibilities of ornamental shrubs — hybrid forsythias and magnolias — flowering cherries — hybrid elms — ornamental crab apples.

Plant Introduction
More than 4,000 introductions, including the Royal Azalea — hardy Cedar of Lebanon — Dawn Redwood — Memorial Rose — Chinese Dogwood — Beauty Bush — Regal Lily.

Plant Propagation
Graft compatibilities — seed dormancy — rooting hormones — use of polyethylene plastic — double dormancy — effects of substrata.

Publications
Silva of North America — Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs — Arnoldia — Sargentia — Journal of the Arnold Arboretum — Botanical Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West — Lilacs — The Arnold Arboretum Garden Book — Yucca of Southwest United States — Bibliography of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs — Bradley Bibliography — Index Rafinesquianus.

Service
Living collections of hardy woody plants — exchange of living plant materials — identifications — exchange and loan of herbarium specimens — bibliographic assistance — tours, lectures, classes and questions answered for the public — survival handbooks for the Armed Forces — special military studies of vegetation.