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On Tuesday forenoon, August 1, Professor John W. Harsh- 
berger and a class of students from the Biological Laboratory of 
the Brooklyn Institute, at Cold Spring Harbor, L. IL, visited the 
Garden. Onthe afternoon of the same day Mr. Nixon and a class 
in botany from the Columbia University also visited the Garden. 
By the time this issue of the Recorp reaches its readers the 
second bunch of bananas to be grown in the economic house of 
the Garden will be nearly ready for harvesting. 
On nomination of the sectional committee, Dr. Gager has been 
elected vice-president and chairman of Section G (Botany) of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 
the coming New York meeting, in place of Prof. T. J. Burrill, 
deceased. 
On Saturday morning, August 12, Dr. Jean Broadhurst and a 
class of about fifty students in the summer session at Teachers’ 
College, Columbia University, visited the Garden, primarily to 
inspect our children’s gardens and work of elementary instruc- 
tion. At the end of their itinerary the ladies were presented by 
the children with a nosegay and the men with a single flower, 
picked from the children’s gardens. 
Bulletin 34, Agricultural Educational Series, of the Department 
of Land Records and Agriculture, United Provinces of Agra and 
Oudh, India, is entitled “A brochure on school gardens,” by H. J. 
Davies, F.R.H.S., superintendent, Government Horticultural Gar- 
dens, Lucknow. The bulletin contains detailed directions for 
laying out and caring for children’s gardens, and six pages of 
tabular matter, giving “instructions for sowing flower seed in 
the hills and plains of the United Provinces.” In the Recorp for 
January, 1913, attention was called to the extensive development 
of children’s gardens in Ceylon. 
The grading for the extension of the brook on the south addi- 
tion, the digging of the brook, and sewer and water connections 
on this area were completed during the summer. The west half 
is now in lawn (September 30), but the east side of the brook 
will have to be delayed until spring, when the soil improvement 
scheme will be completed on that side. Early in the spring of 
1917 it is planned to move the systematic collections so as to 
