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following whenever possible of adding a percentage of the current 
income from endowment to endowment is an admirable one. 
Iam glad to know of it.” 
Tue Work Brerore Us 
Physical Development 
In the preceding report there were listed four needs to be 
realized for the completion of the physical development of the 
garden as follows: 
1. Construction of the Eastern Parkway Gate. 
2. A gate at the North Flatbush Avenue entrance. 
3. An addition to the Laboratory Building. 
4. Completion of the planting of the Esplanade. 
During 1941 item four was accomplished by the planting of 
the two double rows of Flowering Cherry trees, with Iris between 
the trees, as noted in the appended report of the Horticulturist. 
The first three items remain to be accomplished. 
1. The need of the proposed gate at the Eastern Parkway 
entrance has been set forth several times in preceding reports. 
This would provide a suitable approach to a public institution at 
its principal entrance, where there is now only a hinged section 
of fence; it would provide a much needed room where visitors 
may wait for friends or find shelter in sudden storm, or be 
suitably cared for in case of emergency, and where visiting classes, 
garden clubs, and other organizations may assemble when 
visiting the Garden as a group; it would also provide a suitable 
place for vending guide books, souvenir post-cards, and other 
objects, and for storing small tools, thus avoiding the necessitv 
of carrying them back and forth to the service yard, as now, 
at inconvenience and loss of time. 
The design for this gate, prepared in 1927 by the architects, 
Melkwim, Mead and White, is again reproduced on the preceding 
page. The 1940 estimate of cost was $60,000 for cut stone all 
granite, and $53,000 for limestone on granite base—a modest 
sum, considering the cost of similar structures elsewhere. 
This Eastern Parkway gate is now the only item still not 
provided of the ten improvements listed in ‘Views in Brooklyn 
