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clearly the origin of the principal varieties and designating those 

 most suitable as house plants. 



Editorial Work 



Leaflets. — During 1922 ten numbers of the Leaflets were issued 

 as follows: I. Arbor Day. 2. Ninth Annual Garden Exhibit for 

 Brooklyn Roys and Girls. 3. Evolution as Illustrated by Ferns. 

 4. Brazil Nuts. 5. The Wardian Case. 6. The Evolution Group 

 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 7. Bulb Culture. 8. The For- 

 ests and Some Big Trees of Long Island. 9-10. Ferns as House 

 Plants. 



American Journal of Botanv and Botanical Abstracts. — During 

 the year I have continued to represent the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Botany; and 

 have accepted an assistant editorship of the Botanical Education 

 section of Botanical Abstracts. 



Newspaper Work 



As intimated in my report of last year, it has been felt that the 

 Garden may be of continually greater service to the public as it 

 becomes better and better known. There are many people in 

 Brooklyn who do not know of the advantages it freely offers. 

 How to get these people acquainted with this institution and to 

 realize its benefits is a problem we are trying to solve. There are 

 today, everywhere, many competing influences, some of them of 

 questionable nature, so that even our public libraries are employing 

 their publicity agents. 



Beginning at the time of my appointment in September, 192 1, 

 articles were sent to all of the New York and Brooklyn papers 

 once in two weeks. These articles have dealt with every phase of 

 activity in the Garden, such as announcements and reports of pub- 

 lic lectures, announcements and reports of progress of the various 

 classes for the public, announcements of exhibitions, cooperative 

 work with the schools, the prosecution and the results of re- 

 search, noteworthy features about particular plants in the Garden, 

 personal activities of members of the staff, etc. In August. 1922, 

 we began sending out these articles every week, and have con- 



