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graduates stood second on the written examination, but had not 
had sufficient experience to rank second, on the final list. 
Needs.—The needs of a larger area for the children’s garden, 
of a children’s building on the site of their garden, of a lecture 
hall, and additional class-room and laboratory space will all be 
met by the new land acquired this year, and by the anticipated 
completion of our laboratory building and a children’s building 
next year. 
Our greenhouse classes for children are, fees increasing to 
a point quite beyond the capacity of the greenhouse now available 
for that purpose, and undoubtedly the Garden will shortly be 
obliged to consider the construction of a greenhouse wing for the 
special accommodation of classes of both children and adults. 
Investigations 
Local Flora Studies —On January 30 was published the Flora 
of the Vicinity of New York: A Contribution to Plant Geography, 
by the curator of plants, Mr. Taylor. This work, of 683 pages, 
was published as Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 
Volume V. Its publication by the New York Garden was owing 
to the fact that the work was initiated while the author was on 
the staff of that institution, from 1909-1911, and was prosecuted 
with the active cooperation of the director, Dr. N. L. Britton, who 
freely placed all the facilities of that garden at the disposal of 
Mr. Taylor. The book deals chiefly with the distribution of 
the flora near Greater New York. It is more than a local flora, 
since it is written from the phytogeographical point of view, and 
is a contribution to the attempt to explain the origin and present 
distribution of our local flora. 
Mr. Taylor has also continued his studies during the year, 
making numerous field trips for collection, and for a more in- 
tensive study of the flora of Long Island. As an illustration of 
the extent to which our knowledge of the flora of Long Island 
is being extended by these studies, two maps are here given, one 
showing the known distribution of the swamp honeysuckle 
(Rhododendron viscosum) at the time our own explorations began 
(January, 1914) and the other the known stations for the same 
plant at the close of 1915 (fig. 3). 
