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Mr. Montague Free, head gardener, gave a talk on “Home 
Gardening” before employees of the City of New York, at the 
Municipal Building, Manhattan, on April 16, 
The Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club. held its spring meeting 
at the Garden on May 20. e indoor meeting and box luncheon 
were followed by an inspection of the grounds under the guidance 
of a member of staff. 
The annual meeting of the Woman’s National Farm and Gar- 
den Association was held at the Garden on Thursday, May 23, 
the president of the association, Mrs. Francis King, of Alma, 
Michigan, presiding. ‘The business session and luncheon were 
followed by a brief address by the director of the Garden, and 
an inspection of the grounds. 
The sixth annual Spring Inspection of the Garden by trustees, 
members and their friends, was held on the afternoon of May 28. 
On account of a severe thunder shower the visit to the planta- 
tions followed the serving of tea in the rotunda of the labora- 
tory building. During the assembling of guests in the lecture 
hall, colored lantern slides of native spring wild flowers were 
exhibited. 
The Garden library has recently received a number of gifts 
from Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, including over fifty photographs 
of botanists, authors’ original drawings of published papers on 
_hepatics, mosses and lichens, autograph letters of botanists, and 
valuable manuscript and correspondence. 
Addition to Endowment.—On June 13 the treasurer of the 
Institute received from two anonymous donors a gift of securi- 
ties of the par value of ten thousand dollars, as an addition to 
the permanent endowment of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and 
to be known as the Benjamin Stuart Gager Memorial Fund. At 
the request of the donors, the income from this fund is to be 
expended for publications for the library or otherwise as the 
present director of the Garden may designate. 
