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forest land owned by the people of the State of New York, over 
$40,000,000 is sent out of the State each year for forest products. 
Proper use of the mature forests of the State and reforestation of 
land now idle would keep much of this vast sum in New York. 
“Out of the 135,000,000 railroad ties used each year in the 
United States, New York supplies about 6 per cent. and consumes 
about 16,000,000.” 
Prof. Gentaro Yamada, of the Higher School of Agriculture 
and Forestry, Morioka, Japan, and Mr. Katudzi Uyemura, of the 
same institution, visited the Garden on July 3. They incidentally 
spoke in the highest praise of our Japanese garden. Returning 
from a trip around the world, in the course of which they have 
seen nearly every public Japanese garden outside of Japan, they 
unhesitatingly pronounced the one in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
as the most perfect they had seen, from the standpoint of Japanese 
landscape architecture. 
On June 18, 1915, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of 
New York City passed a resolution authorizing the issue of $100,- 
000 corporate stock of the City of New York to provide means for 
permanent improvements at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, includ- 
ing the completion of the laboratory building and plant houses. ‘ 
This action was taken following the generous offer of Mr. Alfred 
T. White, Chairman of the Botanic Garden Committee of the 
Brooklyn Institute trustees, to secure a like sum by private sub- 
scription. The amount was subscribed by Mr, White and the 
donors of the original endowment of the Garden. The appropria- 
tion will become available when approved by the Board of Alder- 
men and the Mayor. Plans are now being prepared for the com- 
pletion of the buildings, only one-fifth of which are now erected, 
and it is hoped that ground may be broken this coming fall. 
