MAR 5 | GOR 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XIll APRIL, 1924 NO. 2 
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
1923 
“Che employment most honorable and most profitable 
to the people is 5 labor for the diffusion and extension of 
the ideas of men. Napoleon Bonaparte. 
= othing is more important tor the progress of een 
tion in. the United States than the generous, hearty, a 
unbampered debotion of thinkers and ee to ie 
cultivation, abbance, and diggemination of gcienc 
AO ee. 
“ Che multiplication of objects of beauty in our citieg— 
parks, and all that usuallp goes with them—is not extraba- 
Bance. Che eflect of these things, acting gradually and 
eterted unconsciously upon the citisens, produces in time 
results which no one can measure, but of the balue of which 
there cannot be the slightest doubt.” R. H. Wolcott. 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF BOTANY 
AND THE SERVICE OF THE CITY 
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY 
AT LANCASTER, PA. 
BY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
Entered as second-class matter in the postoffice at Lancaster, Pa., under act of August 24, 1orz. 
