109. 
ADULT COURSES 
There were 996 persons registered for adult courses during 
1941, not as many as those in 1940 (1359) but more than in any 
aches year of the Garden’s history. A free course of 3 exercises 
offered in 1940 to teachers brought 500 registrants, and this was 
largely responsible for the large 1940 figure. 
The largest registration in these adult courses was in D1, 
Medicinal Plants, a course for students in nurse training schools 
of hospitals. 232 young women registered for this course, 36 in 
the spring and 196 in the fall, coming from four Brooklyn 
hospitals: Jewish, Kings County, Prospect Heights, and St. 
Johns. This course was first offered by the Garden in 1927, 
so that this was the 15th consecutive year that it has been given. 
No fee is charged. 
Courses given by members of this department.—The following 
shows in tabular form the courses given by members of this 
department in 1941, with the registration. 
No. of pou Name of Course Instructor Regis. 
All ae Wild Flowers Aaa Ferns; | ee Rusk | 28 
Spring and Fall 
NA aes eee ay Wild nee Gs Miss Rusk 10 
Sica 5 Paes Native Fert | Miss Rusk 20 
A5 and 9, B13 | 
and tanec Trees ane Shrubs; Spring | Dr. Graves, Miss Ash- 63 
and wel 
AOD Mere ele Ss . the Tropics mele Sey es, ae Rusk 40 
AG tela W ieee cs and Valks in we | Dr. Graves, s Rusk, 49 
BG, Spring and F% Nis eee Ge 
BuO ete ary: Flowering Plants oe Miss Rusk 16 
ferns, Field and Lab. 
sa tt te ee | Thee sie Shrubs (for | Dr. Graves, Mr. Doney 22 
Park Dept. Spring only) 
DNL: oie Medicinal Plants Ss; Spring ae ca ae Rusk 232 
' and Fall s Ashw 
| *T otal ee ere 480 
| 
New courses.—In order to afford an opportunity to members 
and others, who are busy during the day, to attend our outdoor 
classes, Miss Rusk offered a course of 3 exercises on Monday 
evenings in the fall, on native ferns, holding it in our wild flower 
garden. The hours for this were from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. It isa 
pleasure to report that 20 people registered for the course, the 
