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Garden with Mr. Ray Poage, project supervisor for the Garden, 
and gave verbal notice that all WPA workers, both men and 
women, of whatever classification, would be removed at the close 
of work on June 30, and the project here terminated. Mr. Hahn 
stated that there would be a general reduction of WPA forces 
throughout the country, and that they were terminating all 
projects, including that at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where 
the small number of persons assigned entailed an undue amount 
of supervision and office work at headquarters in proportion to 
the number of workers. 
This project, as detailed in preceding Annual Reports, began 
in 1931 and was therefore of ten years duration. When termi- 
nated it was officially known as Official Project 165-1-97-8, 
Work Project 4. 
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U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
The cooperation, through Dr. L. Gordon Utter, of our De- 
partment of Plant Pathology, with Dr. Floyd F. Smith, Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, U. 5S. Department of 
Agriculture, in the study of thrips (an insect pest of Iris), is 
noted on pages 93 and 94 of this report. 
Department of Parks 
On June 25, we shared with the nursery of the Park Depart- 
ment seeds of Magnolia accuminata collected from a wild tree in 
Wolfe County, Kentucky, and seeds of MW. tripetala nee me 
Fraseri, which we had reccived from Mr. Frank McFarland, of 
the University of Nentucky. 
Courses of Instruction for Park Department lem ployees are 
reported on page 59. 
The cooperation of the Department of Parks in the resurfacing 
of 3,202 square yards of paved walks in the Garden has been 
recorded in detail on page 70. 
About 30 benches were distributed throughout the Garden in 
May. These benches had been used at the World’s Fair in 
1939-40, and were obtained through the kind cooperation of 
Park Commissioner Robert Moses and the Borough Super- 
intendent of Parks, Mr. R. C. Jenkins. 
