BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXXI OCTOBER, 1942 No. 4 
PROSPECTUS: 1942-1943 
Special features have been introduced into this Prospectus to 
help meet the practical and spiritual needs of the hour—for the 
war that has been thrust upon us has created both. 
“Food is a whole arsenal of weapons in this struggle for human 
freedom. It is the driving force behind high production by muni- 
tions workers, and top-notch performance and high morale among 
soldiers and sailors” (The Secretary of Agriculture, Claude R. 
Wickard). 
The necessity of increasing the food supply must be met chiefly 
by large-scale gardening on plots of acreage dimensions, but every- 
one who has even a small garden plot, or a backyard that can be 
converted into one, can do his bit, provided he has some knowledge 
of how to go about it. Without knowing how to garden, it is very 
easy to waste, not only effort, but seeds and fertilizer, and the 
nation has none to waste. 
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Residents of a large city, as a rule, lack the knowledge and ex- 
perience of gardening which is common in the village, and special 
“V" courses to meet this need have been organized and are offered 
in the following pages, as well as “peace-time” courses, including 
classes in ornamental horticulture. 
The second “Victory Garden Leaflet,’ given out by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture and cooperating agencies, and distrib- 
uted by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to all the Garden’s members 
and friends, urges people to include “a few flowers in the vegetable 
garden if you have no separate flower garden,—along the edge, or 
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a row of flowering annuals among the vegetables. 
Courses V4, V6, V8, and V9, and some of the A courses, are 
planned to be helpful to those who wish to do this. 
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