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personnel, beginning at about 2:30 p.m. and continuing until 
3:45. The itinerary included the new Ivy Garden on Boulder 
Hill; the Oriental Garden; the newly planted four rows of 
Flowering Cherries on the Esplanade, viewed this year for the 
first time; the Lilac collection, then in its prime; past the Rose 
Garden and Rose Arc and through the Barberries to the Pea 
Family in the Systematic Section, where the Wisterias, Golden 
Chain (Laburnum), and Cytisus were at their height of bloom. 
Tea was served in the Laboratory Building by the Woman's 
Auxiliary. The following exhibits were on view during the 
serving of tea: 
1. Thirty paintings of flowers in water-color tempera, by Mrs. 
J. Norman Carpenter, member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists. 
In the main rotunda and north corridor. 
2. Thirty portraits of orchids and rare flowers, including the 
white orchid, Phalaenopsis, by Miss Tabea Hofmann, well-known 
illustrator. In Room 330. 
3. Proposed Gate at the Eastern Parkway Entrance. —Per- 
spective in color, by architects, Mchkim, Mead and White. 
Main floor. 
4. Portraits of botanists. About twenty new portraits have 
been added to the collection already on exhibition in the corridors. 
Miscellaneous 
National U.S.O. Campaign.—On June 27, the Women's 
Division of the United Service Organizations made an evening 
appeal at Ebbets Field, near the Garden, during a league baseball 
game. The 160 volunteers who took part held a preliminary 
meeting in the auditorium of the Laboratory Building for 
organization, instructions, and other preliminaries, before pro- 
ceeding to Ebbets Field, where a total of $1,532.44 was collected 
from the audience at the game. 
The Civilian Conservation Corps, under the supervision of 
Mr. Charles E. Morris, Landscape Architect, has been assembling 
a collection of botanical importance in the Virgin Islands, at 
Christiansted, St. Croix. In response to a request for seeds of 
palms and lists of commercial dealers in such seeds, we were 
