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attendance for the 3 sessions being 53. This response suggests 
the need of more evening, outdoor classes of this sort, which 
cause little inconvenience and expense in connection with opening 
the building (except for registration at the first exercise). For a 
similar class in native wild flowers scheduled for Tuesday morn- 
ings at 10:45, and held likewise in the local flora area, 10 people 
registered. 
In this connection the course of 3 illustrated lectures, offered 
by Dr. Gundersen in March, should be mentioned. The title 
of the course was “‘Conifers around the World,” for which 60 
people registered. No fee was charged. 
FLOWER Days 
Two flower days for members of the Garden were observed in 
1941 as follows: 
1. Fourteenth Annual Rose Garden Day, Tuesday, June 10. 
Members and guests met in the auditorium at 3:30 p.m. Mr. 
Montague Free, Horticulturist, and Mr. S. R. Tilley, Rose 
Grower, conducted an informal discussion on problems of rose 
culture. After the usual tour of the Rose Garden, tea was 
served in the rotunda of the Laboratory Building, the Woman's 
Auxiliary, assisted by young ladies of the staff, having charge of 
the social arrangements. 
2. Fall Rose Garden Day, Tuesday, October 14, was a similar 
occasion, at which we were fortunate in having Mrs. Charles 
Doscher, Vice President of the Long Island Horticultural Society 
and the Vice President of the Federated Garden Clubs of New 
York State, speak on ‘‘A Long Island Rose Garden.” 
Arrangements had been made for two other flower days, which 
were abortive on account of conditions beyond our control. 
Lilac Day had been scheduled for Tuesday, May 20, 1941, but 
because of the unusually warm weather during the first half of 
May, the lilacs were far ahead of their schedule, and, incidentally, 
of ours, too. To have held the exercises on the date scheduled 
would have been to exhibit only the tag-end flowers of our 
beautiful collection. The event was therefore cancelled. 
An Herb Garden Day had been projected for September 30, 
with a lecture by Miss Winifred M. Graville, F.R.H.S., of Sheffield, 
