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to meet the most urgent needs of the Garden, was over $14,000, and the 
demands increase from year to year. To insure an annual income of 
this amount, and to provide for normal expansion and baie of the 
Garden’s activities, an endowment of $500,000 is urgently neede 
17. To increase the membership of the Garden. he Aree (each is 
a private organization, cooperating with the City of New York in the 
development and maintenance of a botanic garden in the Borough of 
Brooklyn. Certain phases of our work should be, and are, maintained by 
public taxation, but other phases of our ie must be maintained by pri- 
vate funds. The Borough of Brooklyn ha pulation of nearly 2,000,000 
people; less than 200 of these contribute ire toward the private funds 
needed for the purposes to be met from such a provision. Over 362,900 
persons visited the Garden in 1916, and the number of visitors is con- 
stantly increasing. There should be at least 2,500 members. 
Do you believe that a botanic Garden is a desirable thing for Brooklyn? 
If so, we invite ee cance tial cooperation in its “ee so that it 
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may be made of g est usefulness to the city, as' we education 
and science in gener ea and may become one of the for see causes for 
civic pride, not only in Brooklyn, but throughout the Greater City 
You are invited to visit our buildings and grounds, and the director will 
be glad to give further information as to our organization, our aims, and 
our activities 
WAR GARDEN SERVICE OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN 
Early in April, 1917, there was formed, in the rooms of the 
Brooklyn Civic Club, a Brooklyn Garden Committee, to organize 
and supervise the planting and cultivation of vacant lots and 
back yards in Brooklyn, in connection with the nation-wide move- 
ment to increase the food supply by enlarging the area of culti- 
vated ground. The committee included Mr. A. M. Lopez 
(Brooklyn Bureau of Charities), chairman, Mrs. Lillian W. Betts 
(Parks and Playgrounds Association), secretary, Hon. Raymond 
V. Ingersoll (Commissioner of Parks), Dr. Gager, of the Botanic 
Garden, and seventeen others. A special contribution from the 
chairman of the governing committee of our trustees enabled 2 
arden to offer all of the time of our head gardener, so far a 
needed, to make preliminary inspections of plots, confer and 
vise with prospective planters and make inspections of gardens 
during the summer. Requests were received and met for the in- 
spection of 139 gardens, varying in size from one hundred square 
feet to twenty-two acres. The gardens were located in all parts of 
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